Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History

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Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History

David Marc,Robert Thompson

Description

Television in the Antenna Age is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium’s history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns--television as an industry, a technology, and an art—the book is a basic primer on the complex, fascinating, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life.

Covers the entire history of American television, from its urban, middle-class beginnings in the late 40s, to the contemporary impact of new technologies and consolidated corporate.
Includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sidebars to illustrate important figures, trends, and events

About the Author

David Marc is a writer and editor who teaches at Syracuse University and Le Moyne College. He is the author of Demographic Vistas (1984; 1996), Comic Visions (1989; Blackwell, 1997) and Bonfire of the Humanities (1995).

Robert J. Thompson is a Professor at Syracuse University, where he heads the Center for the Study of Popular Television at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. His books include Adventures on Prime Time (1990) and Television’s Second Golden Age (1996).

Features

Provides a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of television’s history and development in the US by two prominent experts on television and popular culture

Covers the entire history of American television, from its urban, middle-class beginnings, through its arrested development in the late 40s, its rise to dominance as a mass medium in the 50s, and its slowly maturing content stream throughout the 60s and 70s
Explores the effect, since the 80s, of competing technologies, consolidation of media ownership and the emerging aesthetics of 21st-century programming
Includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sidebars to illustrate important figures, trends, and events.

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