The Television History Book (Television, Media & Cultural Studies)

by Michele Hilmes (Editor), JasonJacobs (Editor), Michele Hilmes (Editor), Jason Jacobs (Editor)

New
Paperback
2003
$44.47

Traces the history of broadcasting and the infludence developments in broadcasting have had over our social, cultural and economic practices. Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, The Television History Book make connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate these national broadcasting traditions.

Synopsis

Traces the history of broadcasting and the infludence developments in broadcasting have had over our social, cultural and economic practices. Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, The Television History Book make connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate these national broadcasting traditions.

$44.47

Quantity

10 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 175
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Published: 19 Dec 2003
ISBN 10: 0851709885
ISBN 13: 9780851709888

Author Bio

MICHELE HILMES is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has written several books on broadcast history, including Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States (2001) and Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922 to 1952 (2001). She is currently at work on a history of the mutual influence and opposition between US and British broadcasters during radio and television's formative years.

Associate Editor: JASON JACOBS is Senior Lecturer in the School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Griffith University, Queensland and the author of Body Trauma TV: The New Hospital Dramas (2003).