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Television: An International History

by Anthony R. Smith. 424 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Anthony R. Smith

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford  

Publication Year:

  1995
Subjects:   Fiction, Television--History, Television Programs--History, Television Broadcasting--History, Television Broadcasting--Social Aspects
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1.
Television: An International History
Book by Anthony R. Smith; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Fiction, Television Broadcasting--History, Television Broadcasting--Social Aspects, Television Programs--History, Television--History
...rival NBC-RCAs interests in VHF television. CBSs ambivalence led to the unlikely...middle- and low-income households--television was becoming something the average...with which post-war commercial television gained economic ascendancy provided...
2.
Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays
Book by Mary Beth Haralovich, Lauren Rabinovitz; Duke University Press, 1999
Subjects: Fiction, Television And Women, Television Broadcasting--Social Aspects--United States
...ethnically marked fictional characters test...multiple-sponsor format for television in the early 1950s...in broadcasting history itself and in historiography...Erik Barnouw, History of Broadcasting...marginalized in television history. According...
3.
Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television
Book by John Thornton Caldwell; Rutgers University Press, 1995
Subjects: Fiction, Television Broadcasting--Social Aspects--United States, Television Broadcasting--United States--History, Television Programs--United States--History And Criticism, Visual Communication
...more important in global television than they are today...the new technologies of television to prove the centrality...throughout television history have also frequently provided...not the inventors of televisions aesthetic guise, but were...
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Community Television in the United States: A Sourcebook on Public, Educational, and Governmental Access
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Subjects: Public-Access Television, Television Broadcasting--Social Aspects--United States, Television In Education--United States, Television Programs, Public Service--United States
...physical aspects of community televisions very existence have implications...implications, has been intense." History Sue Miller Buske 1986...represent "a milestone in the history of community television as a confluence of forces...
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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
Book by Purnima Mankekar; Duke University Press, 1999
Subjects: Television And Women--India, Television Broadcasting--Social Aspects--India, Television In Community Development--India, Television In Politics--India, Television Programs--India
...interpretation, interpretation based on an attention to history, to the concrete, to what Foucault has called subjugated...disentangle our attempts to understand the pleasures a television text may provide to its viewers and, sometimes, its crit...
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Competing Ethos: Reliance on Profit versus Social Responsibility by Laypeople Planning a Television Newscast
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The Television War: Unparalleled Access and Breakthroughs in Technology Produced Riveting Live Coverage of the War in Iraq. but How Complete a Picture Did TV Deliver?
Magazine article by Jacqueline E. Sharkey; American Journalism Review, Vol. 25, May 2003
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The television war: unparalleled access and breakthroughs in technology produced riveting...World War II. William M. Hammond of the U.S. Army Center of Military History says television news organizations actually "went along" with the militarys...
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Jamie's Still Bubbling; TELEVISION
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 4, 2007
Subjects: Television programs--Television program reviews
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Why It's All Bad News for ITV; Television, REVIEW
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 2, 2005
Subjects: Television programs--Television program reviews
...brilliant Trident operation, each got 25 years. In drama, the bad guys always get caught; when real life starts to mirror fiction, we can all rest a little easier in our beds.
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The BBC Sends 400 to Glastonbury but Ignores the Ashes; MICHAEL HENDERSON Laments the Absence of an Ashes Series on BBC Television and Argues That the Corporation Should Be Ashamed by Its Lack of Interest and Investment
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 8, 2009
Subjects: Television programs
...Absence of an Ashes Series on BBC Television and Argues That the Corporation...the greatest champion in tennis history. Next week brings The Open, when...audience that only terrestrial television can provide. This morning Katherine...
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Thompson under Fire over BBC Cuts; Strike Threat: Live Shows like Strictly Come Dancing Could Be Affected by Industrial Action Going: The Sale of Television Centre, on a 1.-Acre Site in White City, Will Raise Hundreds of Millions of Pounds for the Corporation
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 18, 2007
Subjects: Strikes, Television programs
...will be 10 per cent fewer original programmes made, the Television Centrein White City will be sold off and there will be...yearlyepisodes cut from 45 a year to 25. BBC1 natural history series Wild will beaxed altogether. Some senior producers...
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Burying the News
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 13, 2006
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...TIMES Burying the news "Why is it that none of the major television networks or newspapers have managed to pay attention to...been the academic programs in economics, philosophy, and history offered by the George Mason University Law and Economics...
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FICTION see novel ; short story . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Paley Center for Media
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...collection of more than 140,000 television and radio programs and commercials covering more than 85 years of television and radio history, was opened in 1996 in Beverly Hills, Calif., in a building designed by Richard Meier...
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