Rerun Nation How Repeats Invented American Television

Name: Rerun Nation How Repeats Invented American Television
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ISBN: 9780415970556

ISBN-10: 0415970555

ISBN-13: 9780415970556

Edition: 2005

Authors: Derek Kompare

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Long before TV Land, the Game Show Network, and Cartoon Network cornered the market, reruns had been a staple of American television for decades. The economics of broadcasting made recycling programs a standard practice as early as the 1950s, but it was not until the mid 1970s that reruns were singled out as a significant contribution to American culture in general-a window into the American past and TV's "Golden Age." InRerun Nation, Derek Kompare looks at how the long tradition of rerun syndication has come to determine television's place in American history and culture, and framed our understanding of what defines "American television." Rerun Nationis a fascinating approach to television…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.06" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Derek Kompare is Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television and CSI .




Industrializing culture : the regime of repetition in the United States, 1790-1920



Transcribed adventures : radio and the recording



(R) : film on early television



Familiarity breeds content : reconfiguring television in the 1960s and 1970s



Our television heritage : reconceiving past television



Old wine in new bottles : broadcast rerun syndication since the 1980s



TV land : cable and satellite as boutique television



Acquisitive repetition : home video and the television heritage