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Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History

ISBN: 978-0-631-21543-1
Hardcover
152 pages
December 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • 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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