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Living room war.
When the media showed the intensity and the chaos of the war with relatively little mediation it helped turn people against the war.
The term came to be during the vietnam war which was the first war in the united states that was televised and showed clips of what was happening in vietnam essentially bringing the war into american living rooms.
The effects of visual media provided a new more personal response by the american public to news events.
Living room war thoughts musings behind the scenes works in process and with a little luck a chronicle of the making of writer director doug karr s first feature film from development to distribution.
This attitude shift was not lost on the pentagon.
Writer michael arien coined the phrase the living room war to describe the infiltration of visual media into american homes.
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Arlen praised much of the reporting from vietnam but wondered how much three minute.
The living room war.
First lady pat nixon from the series house beautiful.
Living room war is arlen s valiant and entertaining attempt to figure out exactly what exactly television does to us.
A conversation with artist martha rosler the brooklyn based artist and photographer speaks about war feminism and art as a form of resistance.
The living room war might have been one of the only wars america has truly lost it made the people feel they could not trust their own government with anything and sparked many riots to end the war.
The rise of television popularity and technological advancements of film make vietnam the first televised war.
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The vietnam war was a part of the daily news where americans often viewed the war on tv in their living rooms.
This timeless collection of essays provides a poetic look at 1960s television culture ranging from the vietnam war to captain kangaroo from the 1968 democratic convention to televised sports.