Cultures in Orbit

Lisa Parks

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In 1957 Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, mo... Lees meer

Recycled Stars

Mary R Desjardins

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood... Lees meer

TV Socialism

Anikó Imre

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In TV Socialism , Anikó Imre provides an innovative history of television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather than uniform propa... Lees meer

Groove Tube

Aniko Bodroghkozy

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune--or even willfully blind--to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1... Lees meer

Watching Jim Crow

Steven D Classen

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after an... Lees meer

Ambient Television

Anna McCarthy

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and store... Lees meer

Broadcasting Modernity

Yeidy M Rivero

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic sw... Lees meer

Seeing Through the Eighties

Jane Feuer

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• The 1980s saw the rise of Ronald Reagan and the New Right in American politics, the popularity of programs such as thirtysomething and Dynasty on netw... Lees meer

Camp TV

Quinlan Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s are widely considered conformist in their depictions of gender roles and sexual attitudes. In Camp TV Quinlan Miller of... Lees meer

Wallowing in Sex

Elana Levine

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat 's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn:... Lees meer

Telemodernities

Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, Wanning Sun

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese ... Lees meer

Production Culture

John Thornton Caldwell

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In Production Culture , John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles-based film and video production w... Lees meer

Recycled Stars

Mary R Desjardins

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood... Lees meer

Living Color

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Recent media events like the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, the beating of Rodney King and its aftermath, and the murder trial of O.J. Sim... Lees meer

Telemodernities

Tania Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese ... Lees meer

Wallowing in Sex

Elana Levine

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat 's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn:... Lees meer

Production Culture

John Thornton Caldwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In Production Culture , John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles-based film and video production w... Lees meer

Her Stories

Elana Levine

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic,... Lees meer

Mobile Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Mobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cult... Lees meer

Tuning Out Blackness

Yeidy M Rivero

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In e... Lees meer

On Living with Television

Amy Holdsworth

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In On Living with Television , Amy Holdsworth examines the characteristics of intimacy, familiarity, repetition, and duration that have come to exempl... Lees meer

Television as Digital Media

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In Television as Digital Media , scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies ... Lees meer

Watching Jim Crow

Steven D Classen

• Hardcover | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after an... Lees meer

Kids Rule!

Sarah Banet-Weiser

• Paperback | Engels | Console-Ing Passions
• In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and... Lees meer