New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States (Oxford Television Studies)

by WilliamBoddy (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $71.76

  Offers an account of the ways in which successive media of electronic communication have been anticipated, debated, and taken up in the twentieth-century United States. Illuminating both the continuities and disjunctions between old media and new, this book offers insights into the relationship between technological change and cultural form.

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $228.13

  Introduction; 1. Cinema and Wireless in Turn of the Century Imagination; 2. The Wireless Nation: Defining Radio as a Domestic Technology; 3. The Amateur, the Housewife, and the Salesroom Floor: The Hesitations of Postwar US TV; 4. US Television Abroad: 1960 - 1990; 5.