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Memories of My Father Watching TV

3.6/5 ( ratings)

"Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience. And in Curtis White's hands, they become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in "Combat, " "Highway Patrol, " "Bonanza, " and other television shows from the 1950s and '60s. Comic in many ways, "Memories" is finally a sad lament of father-son relationship that is painful and tortured, displayed against a background of what they most shared, the watching of television, the universal American experience.

Language: English

Pages: 158

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: June 01, 1998

ISBN: 1564781895

ISBN 13: 9781564781895

Memories of My Father Watching TV

3.6/5 ( ratings)

"Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience. And in Curtis White's hands, they become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in "Combat, " "Highway Patrol, " "Bonanza, " and other television shows from the 1950s and '60s. Comic in many ways, "Memories" is finally a sad lament of father-son relationship that is painful and tortured, displayed against a background of what they most shared, the watching of television, the universal American experience.

Language: English

Pages: 158

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: June 01, 1998

ISBN: 1564781895

ISBN 13: 9781564781895

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