Masterpiece Theatre and the Politics of Quality
Editorial Reviews
David Finkle, "An Oasis of Literate TV or Snobbish Escapism?" New York Times, May 9, 1999
Perhaps the juciest most recently is "Masterpiece Theatre and the Politics of Quality," a book by the conservative critic Laurence A. Jarvik. Looking at corporate and Presidential concerns behind the shaping of "Masterpiece Theatre" -- with the word "quality" repeatedly showing up in doubt-inducing quotation marks -- Mr. Jarvik writes, "The nostalgic and tranquilizing quality of 'Masterpiece Theatre' fits in with the Nixon Administration's agenda for confronting the radicalism it opposed..."
David Finkle, "An Oasis of Literate TV or Snobbish Escapism?" The New York Times, Arts & Leisure Section, Sunday, May 9, 1999
...Perhaps the juiciest most recently is "Masterpiece Theatre and the Politics of Quality," a book by the conservative critic Laurence A. Jarvik. Looking at corporate and Presidential concerns behind the shaping of "Masterpiece Theatre" -- with the word "quality" repeatedly showing up in doubt-inducing quotation marks -- Mr. Jarvik writes, "The nostalgic and tranquilizing quality of 'Masterpiece Theatre' fits in with the Nixon Administration's agenda for confronting the radicalism it opposed..."
Masterpiece Theatre and the Politics of Quality
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