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.
  
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"Quite simply, a tour de force--a wonderful synthesis of history and criticism."--Daniel Czitrom, author of Media and the American Mind "A cooly sophisticated analysis . . . of American televsion."--American Studies International In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students...

Comic Visions, Second Edition is an update of the most influential critical history of American television comedy.

• Most comprehensive social and critical history of American television comedy
• Very engaging, lucid and entertaining writing style
• Approaches social criticism without being too scholarly and pedantic

Conventional screen histories tend to concentrate on New York City and Hollywood in chronicling the evolution of American cinema. Notwithstanding the tremendous contribution of both cities, Syracuse and Central New York also played a strategic - yet little-known - role in early screen history.In 1889 in Rochester, New York, George Eastman registered a patent for perforated celluloid film, a development that would telescope the international race to record motion by means of photography to the immediate future. In addition, the first public film projection occurred in Syracuse, New York, in...

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.
  
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  Includes...