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Author Postman, Neil.

Title The disappearance of childhood / Neil Postman
Published New York : Delacorte Press, [1982]
©1982

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 MELB  305.23 POS D  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 177 pages ; 22 cm
Contents The invention of childhood. When there were no children ; The printing press and the new adult ; The incunabula of childhood ; Childhood's journey -- The disappearance of childhood. The beginning of the end ; The total disclosure medium ; The adult-child -- The disappearing child ; Six questions
Summary Argues that the intrusion of television into every home introduces children too early to adult concepts and activities and subverts their ability to think abstractly, and the very concept of childhood is being destroyed
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [163]-166
Subject Children and adults -- United States.
Children and adults.
Children -- United States.
Children.
Mass media and children -- United States.
Mass media and children.
LC no. 82001526
ISBN 0440016916