Volume 28, Number 12 · July 16, 1981
Stage Fret
By Thomas R. Edwards
Making Scenes: A Personal History of the Turbulent Years at Yale, 1966-1979
by Robert Brustein
Random House, 352 pp., $15.00
The Camera Age: Essays on Television
by Michael J. Arlen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 337 pp., $13.95
The titles of these books play upon the familiar idea that life is getting hard to distinguish from our ways of representing or reproducing it. Robert Brustein's subject is theater and Michael J. Arlen's is television, but both writers in effect ask how intellectual seriousness can find living space within a cultural medium that seems hostile or (worse) indifferent to its traditional premises.
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