On Screen Rivals : Cinema and Television in the United States and Britain

Name: On Screen Rivals : Cinema and Television in the United States and Britain
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ISBN: 9780312227685

ISBN-10: 031222768X

ISBN-13: 9780312227685

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Jane C. Stokes

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Book details

Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 253
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. x
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction: On Screen Rivals and the Meaning of Television	p. 1
A Cultural Biography of Television in Britain and the United States
Introduction	p. 13
The Age of Experiment, 1880-1945	p. 17
The Mature Medium, 1945-Present Day	p. 27
The Technogenesis of Television: Cinema's On Screen Representation of its Rival
Introduction	p. 55
Having a Ball in Your Hall: Television in the Musical	p. 59
All the Company You Want: Hollywood and the Feminizing of Television	p. 77
Jobs for the Boys: British Cinema, the BBC and Commercial Television	p. 93
Pop and the Box: Youth, Television, Music and Movies in the 1950s and 1960s	p. 111
As Mad As Hell: The Reel World of Television News	p. 131
A Fearful Regard: Television in Horror and Science Fiction Films	p. 145
Seeing the Funny Side: Television as a Figure of Fun in Popular Comedy	p. 168
So, What's the Idea of Television?	p. 187
Annotated Filmography	p. 202
References	p. 223
Index	p. 233
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