Traces the history of broadcasting and the infludence developments in broadcasting have had over our social, cultural and economic practices. Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, 'The Television History Book' make connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate these national broadcasting traditions.
Interviews with these scientists, extensive archival research worldwide, and rare photos make this book--and its following volume--the one definitive history and the only authoritative account.
7 See also Lynn Spigel, “Seducing the Innocent: Childhood and Television in Postwar America,” in William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, eds., Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History (Minneapolis: ...
This title examines television's origin in the United States, the ways different networks and shows have shaped history, and how it has grown to capture the nation's attention.
Quatermass and the Pit (d. Rudolph Cartier, BBC, 1958–9). The Queen's Messenger (d. Mortimer Stewart, WGY Schenectady, TX 11 September 1928). Rope (d. Dallas Bower, BBC, TX 08 March 1939). Saturday Superstore (d. Various, BBC, 1982–87).
In January 1982, Sauter fired Charles Kuralt and Shad Northshield from the CBS Morning Show and hired a new producer, George Merlis, to reshape the broadcast. Merlis, a former producer of ABC's Good Morning, America, kept Diane Sawyer, ...
At last he has produced the follow-up volume; the reader may be assured there is no other book in any language that is remotely comparable to it. Together, these two volumes provide the definitive technical history of the medium.
Both Susan Douglas and Carolyn Marvin found misleading historical markers in their works on important early twentieth - century communication technologies . Douglas , in Inventing American Broadcasting , noted that most histories of ...
In The Way We All Became the Brady Bunch, TV and pop culture writer Kimberly Potts will draw upon her deep knowledge of and appreciation for The Brady Bunch and television and pop culture history, as well as her contacts, connections, and ...
Julie D'Acci, Mary Desjardins, Jane Feuer, Mary Beth Haralovich, Michele Hilmes, Moya Luckett, Lauren Rabinovitz, Jane M. Shattuc, Mark Williams “Reading this collection will be a tonic for anyone wearied by ongoing assaults on feminism ...
According to Karen Lury this mode 'relates to the tactile, sensual approach television has to such material': it allows the image to be 'pored over' (Lury 2005). However, the origins of the portraits, and indeed much of the archive ...