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Italy’s most famous critic talks for the first time about his profession and television, amid resistance, change and new challenges. Aldo Grasso gives in for the first time to the temptation to reflect on his work as a television critic – “a stateless person, an outcast, an intruder unrecognised by the Other Critics and unloved by those directly concerned, accustomed to being pampered and coddled by the print media” – and he does so by recounting Italian television of yesterday and today, a timeless mirror of the vices and virtues, desires, passions and disillusionment of an entire country, through his latest book “Cara televisione. Una storia d’amore e altri sentimenti (Raffaello Cortina Editore).

Aldo Grasso is a television historian, columnist for Corriere della Sera and full professor of the History of Radio and Television at the Catholic University of Milan; he is Italy’s leading television critic. He has published several books on the history of television.

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