Connections A Broadcast History Reader

Name: Connections A Broadcast History Reader
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ISBN: 9780534552183

ISBN-10: 0534552188

ISBN-13: 9780534552183

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michele Hilmes

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List price: $155.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 11/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Preface



Fundamental Concepts and Radio Days



How Are Media Born?




The Radio Act of 1927: Progressive Ideology, Epistemology, and Praxis




Crusade against Mammon: Father Harney, WLWL, and the Debate over Radio in the 1930s




Why We Don't Count: The Commodity Audience




Transition to Television



NBC and the Innovation of Television News, 1945-1953




The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs




Sitcoms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker




The Classic Network System



From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sitcom




And That's the Way It Was: The Vietnam War on the Network Nightly News




High Concept, Small Screen: Reperceiving the Industrial and Stylistic Origins of the American Made-for-TV Movie




Feeding Off the Past: The Evolution of the Television Rerun




The Multichannel Universe



Cable Television and the Public Interest




Recodings: Possibilities and Limitations in Commercial Television Representations of African American Culture




U.S. Broadcasting and the Public Interest in the Multichannel Era: The Policy Heritage and Its Implications




Prime-Time Television in the Gay '90s: Network Television, Quality Audiences, and Gay Politics




U.S. Television Abroad: Market Power and National Introspection




Feminine Desire in the Age of Satellite Television



Index of Authors and Readings