Television category: 3830 books
The Television Entrepreneurs
Social Change and Public Understanding of Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next 'apprentice', The Television Entrepreneurs draws upon popular business-oriented shows such as The Apprentice and Dragons' Den to explore the...
by Bill Shull
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The history of Philadelphia television is the history of television in America. Philo Farnsworth, credited with inventing television, performed some of his earliest experiments at the Franklin Institute and at 1230 Mermaid Lane. Those experiments led to the city's first television station, W3XE. Channel...
Broadcasting Modernity
Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon and promoter of Cuba’s identity as a modern...
It's Not TV
Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."
This...
New Television
The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Even though it’s frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as “chewing gum for the mind” really disappeared.
Philosopher Martin Shuster argues...
Culture, Communication and National Identity
The Case of Canadian Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
‘There can be no political sovereignty without culture sovereignty.’ So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism and Canadian television policy that Canada’s...
Television and the Second Screen
Interactive TV in the age of social participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Television is changing almost beyond recognition. In the battle for consumers, social media sites, smart phones and tablets have become rivals to traditional linear TV. However, audiences and producers are also embracing mobile platforms to enhance TV viewing itself. This book examines the emerging...
Television in the Age of Radio
Modernity, Imagination, and the Making of a Medium
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Television existed for a long time before it became commonplace in American homes. Even as cars, jazz, film, and radio heralded the modern age, television haunted the modern imagination. During the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. television was a topic of conversation and speculation. Was it technically feasible?...
Adapting Science Fiction to Television
Small Screen, Expanded Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Before it reached television, science fiction existed on the printed page, in comic books, and on movie screens for decades. Adapting science fiction to the new medium posed substantial challenges: Small viewing screens and limited production facilities made it difficult to achieve the sense of wonder...
Appreciating the Art of Television
A Philosophical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Contemporary television has been marked by such exceptional programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television, Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent development, but has in fact existed for a long time. Yet despite...
Ambient Television
Visual Culture and Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2001
Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pass...
Reality Television Contracts
How to Negotiate the Best Deal
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Reality television is the growth area of television today. Individuals around the country want to be involved, whether in front of the camera or behind, and those who want to produce reality television seek to attract talent-maybe from the local beauty salon or perhaps the rodeo, extermination company,...
The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television
A Blow-by-Blow History from 1921 to 1964
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Radio and television broadcasting were as important to the growth and popularity of boxing as it was to the reshaping of our very culture. In The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television, Frederick V. Romano explores the many roles that each medium played in both the development and the depiction...
The Age of Television
Experiences and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
At a stage of major change in the world of television (the coming of digital TV, multiple channels, mobile TV on cellphones) this book seeks to take stock of the impact of the advent and presence of television on daily life over the past fifty years, or slightly longer. The author takes as her standpoint,...