Authors: Michele Hilmes
ISBN-13: 9780534552183, ISBN-10: 0534552188
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: Student Edition with out Infotrak
Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has taught the history of broadcasting course for more than a decade. She served as the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies for eight years. Hilmes is the author or editor of several books on broadcasting history in addition to ONLY CONNECT, including RADIO VOICES: AMERICAN BROADCASTING 1922-1952 (1997); THE RADIO READER: ESSAYS IN THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF RADIO (2001, ed. with Jason Loviglio), and THE TELEVISION HISTORY BOOK (2003), as well as numerous journal and anthology articles. She is frequently invited to give presentations on U.S. cultural history, both at home and around the world.
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
Preface | IX | |
Part I | Fundamental Concepts and Radio Days | 1 |
1 | How Are Media Born? | 3 |
2 | The Radio Act of 1927: Progressive Ideology, Epistemology, and Praxis | 19 |
3 | Crusade against Mammon: Father Harney, WLWL, and the Debate over Radio in the 1930s | 40 |
4 | Why We Don't Count: The Commodity Audience | 63 |
Part II | Transition to Television | 83 |
5 | NBC and the Innovation of Television News, 1945-1953 | 85 |
6 | The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs | 101 |
7 | Sitcoms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker | 135 |
Part III | The Classic Network System | 159 |
8 | From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sitcom | 161 |
9 | And That's the Way It Was: The Vietnam War on the Network Nightly News | 186 |
10 | High Concept, Small Screen: Reperceiving the Industrial and Stylistic Origins of the American Made-for-TV Movie | 209 |
11 | Feeding Off the Past: The Evolution of the Television Rerun | 231 |
Part IV | The Multichannel Universe | 253 |
12 | Cable Television and the Public Interest | 255 |
13 | Recodings: Possibilities and Limitations in Commercial Television Representations of African American Culture | 271 |
14 | U.S. Broadcasting and the Public Interest in the Multichannel Era: The Policy Heritage and Its Implications | 289 |
15 | Prime-Time Television in the Gay '90s: Network Television, Quality Audiences, and Gay Politics | 323 |
16 | U.S. Television Abroad: Market Power and National Introspection | 343 |
17 | Feminine Desire in the Age of Satellite Television | 357 |
Index of Authors and Readings | 375 |