Boxed in - Softcover

"These essays are the most valuable, original, powerful (and funny) any critic has produced in the history of American television."Boxed In"is the benchmark work." --Todd Gitlin" "Mark Miller is at his best (and this best is very good indeed) when he shows . . . how television obliterates distinctions, trivializes issues, and reduces everything to insignificance. His analysis of the flattening, reductive effect of television is original and highly instructive." --Christopher Lasch, author of"The Culture of Narcissism""

Informed, controversial, ranging from a melancholy study of rock and roll's descent into show business to a hilarious look at the spectacle that is the"Jerry Lewis Telethon, "these twenty essays offer an unusual and (ironically) entertaining study of American media by one of its foremost critics."