New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States (Oxford Television Studies)

New Media and Popular Imagination places the current technological upheaval in audio-visual culture in the context of previous periods of twentieth-century media innovation. Examining popular and industry responses to the introduction of radio, television, and digital media into the home, the book underscores the continuities and disjunctions in the ways in which electronic media have been anticipated, promoted, and resisted in twentieth-century America.

Humor & Entertainment

Boddy, William

Television

Oxford University Press

New Media and Popular Imagination places the current technological upheaval in audio-visual culture in the context of previous periods of twentieth-century media innovation. Examining popular and industry responses to the introduction of radio, television, and digital media into the home, the book underscores the continuities and disjunctions in the ways in which electronic media have been anticipated, promoted, and resisted in twentieth-century America.

Just a few years in the mid-1950s separated the "golden age" of television's live anthology drama from Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" pronouncement. Fifties Television shows how the significant programming changes of the period cannot be attributed simply to shifting public tastes or the exhaustion of particular program genres, but underscore fundamental changes in the way prime-time entertainment programs were produced, sponsored, and scheduled. These changes helped shape television as we know it today.William Boddy provides a wide-ranging and rigorous analysis of the fledgling American television industry during the period of its greatest economic growth, programming changes, and critical controversy. He carefully traces the development of the medium from the experimental era of the 1920s and 1930s through the regulatory battles of the 1940s and the network programming wars of the 1950s.

Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics (Illinois Studies Communication)

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Words, Language & Grammar

University of Illinois Press

William Boddy provides a wide-ranging, rigorous analysis of the fledging American television industry during the period of its greatest economic growth, programming changes, and critical controversy. He traces the medium's development from the experimental era through the regulatory battles of the 1940s and the network programming wars of the 1950s.

Fifties Television: THE INDUSTRY AND ITS CRITICS (Illinois Studies in Communication)

The history of motor racing

PUTNAM

This all-color book details the ubiquitous Beetle, from its beginnings in Germany, through its introduction in the United States in 1949, to the demise of the coupe in 1976 and the convertible in 1979, through the introduction of an all-new Bug. Burt lays out the complete evolution of this unique automotive milestone from People's car to counter-culture icon.

Volkswagen Beetle: Type 1, the traditional Beetle (Osprey autohistory)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Distributed by Motorbooks Inte

Mercedes Benz 300 S.L.: Gull-Wing and Roadster; 3 Litre, 6 Cylinder

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Osprey Pub Co

Orbis Pub.

Updated from original Montagu Motor Books edition this is the only English language history of the extremely historic Paris Autodrome, the banked circuit at Montlhéry was used for innumerable record bids and important races. Written by that doyen of motor sport journalism, Bill Boddy, the book has a foreword by famous racing driver and record-breaker the late George Eyston, OBE.

MontlhTry: The Story of the Paris Autodrome (Classic Reprint)

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Veloce Publishing Ltd.

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