Clive James On Television
Clive James
06 April 2017
9781509832439704 pages
Synopsis
His best in one volume, Clive James On Television includes all Clive James's treasured TV criticism, originally written for The Observer between the years 1972 and 1982.
From the 1972 Olympics to the 1982 Eurovision Song Contest, here is a decade of the most trenchant, witty and thought-provoking criticism of any kind, with a foreword from Clive James himself, described as 'the funniest man in Britain'.
This volume incorporates three collections: Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket and Glued to the Box.
James reinvented the style of TV criticism. Described by Sheridan Morley as 'far and away the funniest writer in regular Fleet Street employment', James was the first critic to prostrate himself before the flow of the medium in all its manifestationsTime Out
The funniest writer in BritainSunday Times
One of the few columnists who makes you laugh aloud . . . if there were angels he would be on their side: and that would certainly include Charlie's AngelsMelvyn Bragg
Books by Clive James
The Fire of Joy
The River in the Sky
Cultural Amnesia
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume Two
Somewhere Becoming Rain
Injury Time
Brrm! Brrm!
Flying Visits
Glued To The Box
Other Passports
Clive James On Television
Visions Before Midnight
Poetry Notebook
Sentenced to Life
Collected Poems
Gate of Lilacs
Opal Sunset
From the Land of Shadows
The Divine Comedy
Unreliable Memoirs
The Crystal Bucket
The Dreaming Swimmer
At the Pillars of Hercules
The Metropolitan Critic
The Remake
Even As We Speak
The Book of My Enemy
The Meaning of Recognition
Reliable Essays
Brilliant Creatures
Snakecharmers In Texas
A Point of View
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Angels Over Elsinore
The Blaze of Obscurity
The Revolt of the Pendulum
May Week Was In June
Falling Towards England
North Face of Soho
The Artificial Horizon
Cultural Amnesia
Poems From The Book of My Enemy
Always Unreliable