Memories of My Father Watching TV

"Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience. And in Curtis White's hands, they become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in "Combat, " "Highway Patrol, " "Bonanza, " and other television shows (and one movie) from the 1950s and '60s. Comic in many ways, "Memories" is finally a sad lament of father-son relationship that is painful and tortured, displayed against a background of what they most shared, the watching of television, the universal American experience.

• | Author: Curtis White
• | Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 158 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1564781895
• | ISBN-13: 9781564781895