Frank, Marcie.

How to be an intellectual in the age of TV : the lessons of Gore Vidal / Marcie Frank. - Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005. - xiii, 156 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Public planet books .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The print intellectual -- The screen intellectual -- A fine romance -- Sexual politics in the print-screen circuit -- TV: another erogenous zone.

0822336022 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 0822336405 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

2005008863


Vidal, Gore, 1925- --Knowledge and learning.


Television personalities--United States.
Intellectuals--United States.


United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

PS 3543 / F828h 2005

818/.5409