On Screen Rivals: Cinema and Television in the United States and Britain

ISBN-13: 9780333665169 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str.

Jane Stokes

Opis

On Screen Rivals explores the relationship between the film and television industries in Britain and America, charting the changes in the relationship between them and their relative status in the cultural field. Building on historical scholarship, the text offers a new paradigm for theorising the media, analysing the way in which media are structured within the milieu of 'cultural technologies'. A wide range of films about television are discussed including such classics as Network and Videodrome.

Spis treści

Introduction.- PART 1: A CULTURAL BIOGRAPHY OF TELEVISION IN BRITAIN AND THE USA.- Introduction.- The Age of Experiment, 1880-1945.- The Mature Medium, 1945-Present Day.- PART 2: THE TECHNOGENESIS OF TELEVISION: CINEMA'S ON SCREEN REPRESENTATION OF ITS RIVAL.- Introduction.- Having a Ball in your Hall: Television in the Musical.- All the Company you Want: Hollywood and the Feminizing of Television.- Jobs for the Boys: British Cinema, the BBC and Commercial Television.- Pop and the Box: Youth, Television, Music and Movies in the 1950s and 1960s.- As Mad as Hell: The Reel World of Television News.- A Fearful Regard: Television in Horror and Science Fiction Films.- Seeing the Funny Side: Television as a Figure of Fun in Popular Comedy Films.- So, What's the Idea of Television?.- Appendix: Annotated Filmography.

O autorze

JANE STOKES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, School of Social Sciences, Univeristy of East London.