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Transmitting the past : historical and cultural perspectives on broadcasting / edited by J. Emmett Winn and Susan L. Brinson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 252 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817383008
  • 081738300X
  • 9780817314538
  • 0817314539
  • 9780817351755
  • 0817351752
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transmitting the past.DDC classification:
  • 384.540973 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1990.6.U5 T73 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 05.34
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Contents:
From Marconi to Cop Rock : an introduction to broadcasting history / Susan L. Brinson -- Radio Mars : the transformation of Marconi's popular image, 1919-1922 / Michael Brown -- Davis Amendment and the federal Radio Act of 1927 : evaluating external pressures in policy making / Fritz Messere -- Wrestling with corporate identity : defining television programming strategy at NBC, 1945-1950 / Chad Dell -- Importance of colorization of motion pictures and syndicated television programs to broadcasting, 1985-1990 / Douglas Ferguson -- WAPI : entertainment and sports broadcasting at an educational radio station in the 1920s / Samuel J. Brumbeloe and J. Emmett Winn -- Femmes boff program toppers : women break into prime time, 1943-1948 / Michele Hilmes -- Space and the speed of sound : mobile media, 1950s broadcasting, and suburbia / Matthew A. Killmeier -- Cop Rock reconsidered : formula, fragments, failure, and foreshadowing in genre evolution / George Plasketes -- Sex, society, and double standards in Cheers / Heather Hundley.
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Summary: These essays represent some of the best cultural studies historical research on broadcasting in the US. The collection that represents scholarship, cultural and historical, on the intersection between the medium of broadcasting and American cultural, political, and economic life.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index.

From Marconi to Cop Rock : an introduction to broadcasting history / Susan L. Brinson -- Radio Mars : the transformation of Marconi's popular image, 1919-1922 / Michael Brown -- Davis Amendment and the federal Radio Act of 1927 : evaluating external pressures in policy making / Fritz Messere -- Wrestling with corporate identity : defining television programming strategy at NBC, 1945-1950 / Chad Dell -- Importance of colorization of motion pictures and syndicated television programs to broadcasting, 1985-1990 / Douglas Ferguson -- WAPI : entertainment and sports broadcasting at an educational radio station in the 1920s / Samuel J. Brumbeloe and J. Emmett Winn -- Femmes boff program toppers : women break into prime time, 1943-1948 / Michele Hilmes -- Space and the speed of sound : mobile media, 1950s broadcasting, and suburbia / Matthew A. Killmeier -- Cop Rock reconsidered : formula, fragments, failure, and foreshadowing in genre evolution / George Plasketes -- Sex, society, and double standards in Cheers / Heather Hundley.

These essays represent some of the best cultural studies historical research on broadcasting in the US. The collection that represents scholarship, cultural and historical, on the intersection between the medium of broadcasting and American cultural, political, and economic life.

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