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Hitch your antenna to the stars : early television and broadcast stardom / Susan Murray.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135465209
  • 1135465207
  • 0203958276
  • 9780203958278
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hitch your antenna to the stars.DDC classification:
  • 791.45/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.3.U5 M87 2005eb
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Contents:
Radio and the saliency of a broadcast star system -- "A marriage of spectacle and intimacy" -- Lessons from Uncle Miltie -- "TV is a killer!" -- Our man Godfrey -- For the love of Lucy.
Review: "In this cultural and industrial history of early television, Susan Murray examines how and why the broadcasting industry gave birth to the idea of TV stars. Combining a sweeping view of the rise of the medium with profiles of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, and other early television greats, Murray illuminates the central role played by television stars in the growth and development of American broadcasting."--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Radio and the saliency of a broadcast star system -- "A marriage of spectacle and intimacy" -- Lessons from Uncle Miltie -- "TV is a killer!" -- Our man Godfrey -- For the love of Lucy.

"In this cultural and industrial history of early television, Susan Murray examines how and why the broadcasting industry gave birth to the idea of TV stars. Combining a sweeping view of the rise of the medium with profiles of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, and other early television greats, Murray illuminates the central role played by television stars in the growth and development of American broadcasting."--Jacket

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