Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Essay of the Day, 6/26/12: "Remote Control: Mythic Reflections"


“Remote Control: Mythic Reflections.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 18 (1990): 65-71.

Remote Control: Mythic Reflections.” The Remote Control Device in the New Age of Television. Ed. James R. Walker and Rob Bellamy. New York: Praeger, 1993: 223-34.



This Barthesian "mythological" reading of the RCD--one of the last products of my "(TV)antipathy" period--was first published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television. It would later be republished in somewhat different form in the first book on the RCD, co-edited by my then Memphis State colleague Jim Walker.


You can read the book version by following the link above.

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