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Bonfire of the Humanities - Television, Subliteracy, and Long-Term Memory Loss (Hardcover)
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Bonfire of the Humanities - Television, Subliteracy, and Long-Term Memory Loss (Hardcover)
Series: Television and Popular Culture
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This volume focuses on the relationship between the rise of the
multi-media environment-television and electronic media-and the
decline of the humanities in academia, the changing role of print
literacy, and the disintegration of historical consciousness. David
Marc is as mad as hell about some things, and he's not going to
take it any longer. He finds that most university humanities
programs remain top-heavy with embittered careerists who would
rather deny the evidence than admit that, with the rise and popular
acceptance of mass media, their most cherished interests, their
techniques, and skills have become archaic. New students are
treated as if they read and write as often, and for the same
purposes, as their counterparts before the rise of the television
camera, telephone, and communications satellite. Professors get
paid. Students receive diplomas. And yet, humanities courses are
the joke of the campus. In analyzing the decline of the humanities
on college campuses, Marc covers a wide range of issues, including
political correctness, the growing tolerance of academic cheating,
and institutionalized grade inflation.
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