Connections: A Broadcast History Reader (Non-InfoTrac Version)
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Meant to be used in a course covering cultural issues in broadcast history, this anthology overviews the development of American broadcasting, from early radio days to the present, with selections arranged chronologically in sections on fundamental concepts and radio, the transition to television, the classic network system, and the multichannel universe. There is no subject index. Hilmes is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR
PrefaceIXPart IFundamental Concepts and Radio Days11How Are Media Born?32The Radio Act of 1927: Progressive Ideology, Epistemology, and Praxis193Crusade against Mammon: Father Harney, WLWL, and the Debate over Radio in the 1930s404Why We Don't Count: The Commodity Audience63Part IITransition to Television835NBC and the Innovation of Television News, 1945-1953856The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs1017Sitcoms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker135Part IIIThe Classic Network System1598From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sitcom1619And That's the Way It Was: The Vietnam War on the Network Nightly News18610High Concept, Small Screen: Reperceiving the Industrial and Stylistic Origins of the American Made-for-TV Movie20911Feeding Off the Past: The Evolution of the Television Rerun231Part IVThe Multichannel Universe25312Cable Television and the Public Interest25513Recodings: Possibilities and Limitations in Commercial Television Representations of African American Culture27114U.S. Broadcasting and the Public Interest in the Multichannel Era: The Policy Heritage and Its Implications28915Prime-Time Television in the Gay '90s: Network Television, Quality Audiences, and Gay Politics32316U.S. Television Abroad: Market Power and National Introspection34317Feminine Desire in the Age of Satellite Television357Index of Authors and Readings375
