Television and the Red menace: The video road to Vietnam

Politics & Social Sciences

MacDonald, J. Fred

Social Sciences

Praeger

Television and the Red Menace: The Video Road to Vietnam

Business & Money

Praeger Pub Text

History

Military

This intriguing book is a study of the rise and fall of an American genre of entertainment and communication whose symbols and rhetoric helped define American society for decades. Flourishing in the 1950s and 1960s, the television Western has deteriorated to the point where it is now irrelevant and meaningless. Tracing the evolution of the Western from the late 1940s to the 1980s, the author ties the genre to the political innocence and confidence of the Cold War years and suggests that the social reevaluations that began in the 1960s undermined the believability of Westerns and their entertainment value. Seeking to understand the demise of the TV Western, the book offers an analysis of the interrelationships between popular culture, television, and sociopolitical development in the United States during the past four decades.

Who Shot the Sheriff?: The Rise and Fall of the Television Western (Media and Society Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Television

<p>Chronicles the history of American network television, discussing the practices of the three networks, their creation of standardized TV fare, and viewers' rejection of these offerings for such options as cable, VCRs, and pay TV</p>

ONE NATION UNDER TELEVISION.

Pantheon

Since commercial television emerged in the late 1940s, it has been on the cutting edge of social, political, economic, and cultural developments in the United States and the world. This book is a provacative history of how the major networks schemed to gain ratings and power, and to keep the FCC at bay. The result was the creation of limited and rigidly standardized television offerings. Professor MacDonald examines how the introduction of cable TV in the 1980s has weakened the power of the networks and reshaped the industry.

One Nation Under Television: The Rise & Decline of Network TV

Random House Value Publishing

Blacks and white TV: Afro-Americans in television since 1948

Radio

Nelson/Hall

<p>A history of radio and its most famous shows and performers provides insights into twentieth-century popular culture and illuminates the important role of broadcasting in American life</p>

Don't Touch That Dial

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Burnham Inc Pub.

Don't Touch That Dial!: Radio Programming in American Life, 1920-1960

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Blacks and White TV: Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948

Industries

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