For the past several years, critics have been describing the
present era as both ""the end of television"" and one of ""peak
TV,"" referring to the unprecedented quality and volume and the
waning of old technologies, formats, and habits. Television's
projections and reflections have significantly contributed to who
we are individually and culturally. From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit
Hole: A Life with Television reveals the reflections of a TV
scholar and fan analyzing how her life as a consumer of television
has intersected with the cultural and technological evolution of
the medium itself. In a narrative bridging television studies,
memoir, and comic, literary nonfiction, Kathleen Collins takes
readers alongside her from the 1960s through to the present,
reminiscing and commiserating about some of what has transpired
over the last five decades in the US, in media culture, and in what
constitutes a shared cultural history. In a personal, critical, and
entertaining meditation on her relationship with TV-as avid
consumer and critic-she considers the concept and institution of TV
as well as reminiscing about beloved, derided, or completely
forgotten content. She describes the shifting role of TV in her
life, in a progression that is far from unique, but rather
representative of a largely collective experience. It affords a
parallel coming of age, that of the author and her coprotagonist,
television. By turns playful and serious, wry and poignant, it is a
testament to the profound and positive effect TV can have on a life
and, by extrapolation, on the culture.
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