Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow - Softcover

Fawcett, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889222371 ISBN 13: 9780889222373

Publisher: Talonbooks, 1986

Synopsis

In this disturbing collection of investigative fictions, Brian Fawcett asserts that the informational white noise of the Global Village is creating a cultural and intellectual breakdown that will eventually lead to the disappearance of local and individual identity. He argues that under the glitzy surfaces of television and the information "revolution" lie the same intentions that ran amok in Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the extermination of memory and imagination.

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Review:

"Cambodia is urgent, blunt, difficult--and vitally necessary."

From the Back Cover:

"Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television Too Slow" is a ferociously brilliant book that challenges its readers to see the world with new eyes, in a new light. Through an arresting division of its pages-- thriteen wildly imaginative short stories at the top, and a passionate essay on colonialism and Southeast Asia at the bottom, running like a Mekong River footnote throughout the book-- Brian Fawcett startles, amuses, and infuriates his hooked readers with juxtaposed images and penetrating insights into the media jungle that defines our age.

Like subtitles read in a foreign film, the pace of "Cambodia" accelerates, and the reader's eye quickens as the work unfolds. Soon, "Cambodia" is moving more swiftly than the images on the evening news, showing us that the book's title is not an enigma, but a realistic description of its remarkably interactive contents.

Brian Fawcett's passion stirs us to resist the annihilation of memory and imagination in our society, lest we lose "our right to remember our pasts and envision new futures" in a violent world where "Cambodia is as near as your television set."

About this edition

• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0889222371
• ISBN 13: 9780889222373
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 208