Reviews for Word from Our Viewers: Reflections from Early Television Audiences [Praeger Television Collection Series]

The average rating for Word from Our Viewers: Reflections from Early Television Audiences [Praeger Television Collection Series] based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-08-13 00:00:00 Richard Wegryn this book, while a nonfiction tale, is a parable of the horrors of censorship and prejudice. Also, an amazing tale of working class people and their resilience.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-06-23 00:00:00 Andrey Istomin A good line: Q. Is it possible to engross the audience when the end of the quest is already known? Yes. Mark Twain wrote of U.S. Grant's personal memoirs that they were so well written as to make one wonder who was going to win the Civil War. The book itself was a tough read. He seems to try to make his points in such an obtuse manner that it's difficult to understand his point. He asks the question, what does a producer do. But never fully answers it. I like his brief description of a scene from the movie, "Contact", one that I've always regarded as being unique. "Another magnificient effect is the running-upstairs shot in "Contact" (director Rober Zemekis, cinematographer Don Burgess), in which the camera pulls the hero, a little girl, down a corridor, up the steps, and toward a medicine cabinet holding the drugs that will save her father from his heart attack. She reaches forward, and the shot of her face becomes a shot of a medicine cabinet. the camera, however, does not move. That is, it is as if the entire shot were, somehow, a reflection in the medicine cabinet mirror. A stunning effect." It's worth watching the movie for that scene alone.