The Cultural Power of an Anti-Television Metaphor: Questioning the “Plug-In Drug” and a TV-Free America

Television & New Media

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 215-238

  Mittell, Jason ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84997994539     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152747640000100206     Document Type: Article

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