The Magic Box - by Rob Young (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film from the late 50s-late 80s. A cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, <i>The Magic Box</i> is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.</b> <p/> <i>I found myself thinking more and more about how for the post-war generation, the television had replaced the village storyteller...</i> <p/> Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main source of stories was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of his grandparents' living room. <p/> Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back, and you watched. There was no pause or fast forward button. <p/> The cross-genre feast of moving pictures that were produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - from <i>The Village of the Damned</i>, <i>Bagpuss</i> and <i>Day of the Triffids</i> to <i>The Wicker Man</i>, <i>Worzel Gummidge</i> and <i>Brideshead Revisited</i> - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. It played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatized the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and occult notions. It expressed something about the nature and character of Britain, it's uncategorisable people and its buried histories. It became a golden age that influenced an entire generation of filmmakers and television producers. <p/> In <i>The Magic Box</i>, Rob Young explores the strange and wonderful ways British identity has been portrayed on the screen, discovering a telemetric folklore of the British Isles.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>ELECTRIC EDEN</i> <b> <p/> Astonishing ... <i>[Electric Eden]</i> is genuinely groundbreaking ... utterly magical. -- <i>Word Magazine</i> <p/> A stunning achievement. -- <b>Simon Reynolds</b> <p/> A thoroughly enjoyable read and likely to remain the best-written overview for a long time. -- <i>Guardian</i> 'Book of the Week' <p/> Comprehensive and absorbing ... an impassioned and infectious rallying cry of a book. -- <i>Sunday Times</i><br>
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