Fifties Television The Industry and Its Critics

Name: Fifties Television The Industry and Its Critics
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ISBN: 9780252062995

ISBN-10: 025206299X

ISBN-13: 9780252062995

Edition: 1990

Authors: William Boddy

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Setting the Stage for Commercial Television



Debating Television



Regulation of the Early Television Industry



UHF, the Television Freeze, and the Network Monopoly



The Television Industry in the Early 1950s



Early Film Programming in Television



Live Television: Program Formats and Critical Hierarchies



The False Dawn of a Golden Age



Programs and Power: Networks, Sponsors, and the Rise of Film Programming



The Economics of Television Networking



The Hollywood Studios Move into Prime Time



The New Structure of Television Sponsorship



Network Control of the Program Procurement Process



Crisis and Counterattack, 1958-60



"The Honeymoon Is Over": The End of Live Drama



TV's Public Relations Crisis of the Late 1950s



The Critics and the Wasteland: Redefining Commercial Television



The Death of the Networks as Reformist Heroes


Bibliography


Index