Catalog > Human Sciences > Art / Architecture > Photography, Film, Video, TV > Susan Murray: Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars (PDF)

Susan Murray
Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars [PDF ebook]
Early Television and Broadcast Stardom

Support

Cover of Susan Murray: Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars (PDF)

First Published in 2005. In this engaging cultural and industrial history of early television, Susan Murray examines how and why the broadcasting industry gave birth to the idea of TV stars. Combining a sweeping view of the rise of the medium with profiles of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, and other early television greats, Murray illuminates the central role played by television stars in the growth and development of American broadcasting.

€46.00

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9781135465209 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2774760 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

Susan Murray Susan (New York University) Murray

25,976 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Jesse Schotter: Hieroglyphic Modernisms

Jesse Schotter: Hieroglyphic Modernisms

Hieroglyphic Modernisms explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and ne …

Cover of Armen T. Marsoobian: Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home

Armen T. Marsoobian: Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home

For nearly a century, members of the Dildilian family practiced the art of photography in Ottoman Turkey, Greece and the United States. This book contains over 300 photographs, most taken during the …

Cover of Ian Hunter: British Trash Cinema

Ian Hunter: British Trash Cinema

BRITISH TRASH CINEMA is the first overview of the wilder shores of British exploitation and cult paracinema from the 1950s onwards. From obscure horror, science fiction and sexploitation, to art-hous …

Cover of Ian Christie & Andrew Moor: The Cinema of Michael Powell

Ian Christie & Andrew Moor: The Cinema of Michael Powell

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I”m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in Britis …

Cover of Catherine Constable: Thinking in Images

Catherine Constable: Thinking in Images

Thinking in Images addresses the current crisis in film theory by offering a new methodology for interrelating theory and film texts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Michele Le Doeuff the autho …

Cover of Alastair Phillips & Ginette Vincendeau: Paris in the Cinema

Alastair Phillips & Ginette Vincendeau: Paris in the Cinema

”Paris in the Cinema” offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Anglophone specialists in film, television, history, arch …

Cover of Nicole Hudgins: The Gender of Photography

Nicole Hudgins: The Gender of Photography

It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography”s history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French phot …

Cover of Emily Carman & Philip Drake: Hollywood and the Law

Emily Carman & Philip Drake: Hollywood and the Law

Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented – from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into prod …

Cover of Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz: Pedro Almodovar

Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz: Pedro Almodovar

The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodovar”s films, put in the context of Spain”s profound cultural transitions since 1980. With pre …

Cover of Patrick Russell & James Piers Taylor: Shadows of Progress

Patrick Russell & James Piers Taylor: Shadows of Progress

Britain emerged from war a changed country, facing new social, industrial and cultural challenges. Its documentary film tradition – established in the 1930s and 1940s around legendary figures such as …