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Visions before midnight : television criticism from the Observer 1972-76 / Clive James

by Clive James

This volume collects television criticism published in the London Observer between 1972 and 1976. Originally released in 1977, this edition includes a new preface and provides a critical analysis of mid-1970s broadcasting.

Accession 20684 ISBN 0330264648 Publisher Picador
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