Ambient Television Visual Culture and Public Space

Name: Ambient Television Visual Culture and Public Space
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ISBN: 9780822326922

ISBN-10: 0822326922

ISBN-13: 9780822326922

Edition: 2001

Authors: Anna McCarthy, Lynn Spigel

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Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pass the time in workplaces of all kinds. In Ambient Television Anna McCarthy explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home. Discussing the roles television has played in different institutions from 1945 to the present day, McCarthy draws on a wide array of sources. These include retail…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction: The Public Lives of TV



Histories and Institutions Rhetorics of TV Spectatorships Outside the Home



TV, Class, and Social Control in the 1940s Neighborhood Tavern



Gendered Fantasies of TV Shopping in the Postwar Department Store



Out-of-Home Networks in the 1990s



Places and Practices Reading TV Installations in Daily Life



Shaping Public and Private Space with TV Screens



Television and Consumption at the Point of Purchase



Television While You Wait



Terminal Thoughts on Art, Activism, and Video for Public Places


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