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Television in the antenna age : a concise history
- Title
- Television in the antenna age : a concise history / David Marc and Robert J. Thompson.
- Author
- Marc, David.
- Publication
- Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thompson, Robert J., 1959-
- Description
- xii, 137 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Television in the Antenna Age is an overview of the medium's history and development in the United States. Integrating three major concerns - television as technology, industry, and art - the book introduces the complex, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. It ends with a provocative mediation on the effect since the 1980s of competing technologies, the consolidation of media ownership, and the emerging aesthetics of twenty-first-century programming."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. No small potatoes -- 2. A downstream medium -- 3. A burning bush? -- 4. Staging and screening -- 5. Corruption and plateau -- 6. Dull as paint and just as colorful -- 7. A myth is as good as a smile -- 8. Oligopoly lost and found.
- ISBN
- 0631215433 (alk. paper)
- 0631215441 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004015922
- OCLC
- ocm55947855
- SCSB-5177267
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries