Television

When the BBC launched the world's first regular, high-definition television service on 2 November, 1936 it was the culmination of decades of technological innovations.

As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science.

The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television.

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 "e;chewing gum for the mind"e; really disappeared.

He leaped from his chair, ripped off his microphone, and lunged at his ex-wife.

This book puts sampling studies on the academic map by focusing on sampling as a logic of exchange between audio-visual media.

How do visual images shape the practice of medicine?

The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds.

Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor.

How do visual images shape the practice of medicine?

How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity?

The excitement of possible futures found in science fiction has long fired the human imagination, but the genre's acceptance by academe is relatively recent.

Austin City Limits is the longest running musical showcase in the history of television, and it still captivates audiences forty years after its debut on the air.

Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor.

Austin City Limits is the longest running musical showcase in the history of television, and it still captivates audiences forty years after its debut on the air.

Through the rise and fall of the Hollywood studio system, David O.

Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media.

Music and the Broadcast Experience explores the complex ways in which music and broadcasting have developed together throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries.

The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds.

America is fascinated by violence--where it comes from in ourselves, how it spreads through society, what effect it has on younger generations, and how it looks, in all its chilling and sanguine detail.

Before the Internet, camcorders, and hundred-channel cable- systems--predating the Information Superhighway and talk of cyber-democracy--there was guerilla television.

Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades.

Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C.

How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity?

Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs.

Tells how radio and television became an integral part of American life, of how a toy became an industry and a force in politics, business, education, religion, and international affairs.

Selected chapters from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Scholarship Online, https://oxford.

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture.

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture -- principally music and dance -- is used to construct and perform identity and maintain a growing urban youth subculture.

The word "e;ventriloquism"e; has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one's voice into an object that appears to speak.

The word "e;ventriloquism"e; has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one's voice into an object that appears to speak.

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "e;Kung Fu Fighting,"e; martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination.

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "e;Kung Fu Fighting,"e; martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination.

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news.

Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news.

Like its companion volume, Telecommunications in Europe, this book deals with the evolution of powerful monopoly institutions in the communications field--the public broadcasters--and the dramatic changes that took place in the late 1980s throughout Europe, and transformed the media landscape.

We all talk about the "e;tube"e; or "e;box,"e; as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven.

Following the overwhelming success of "e;The Cosby Show"e; in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned to black dollars as a way of salvaging network profits lost in the war against video cassettes and cable T.

In recent years, the media has been awash in exuberant tales of the arrival of the information superhighway, when television will explode with exciting possibilities, offering some 500 channels as well as a marriage of TV and computer that will provide, on command, access to the latest movies, magazines, newspapers, books, sports events, stock exchange figures, your bank account, and much, much more.

A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level.

Why do heroes fight each other?

Why do heroes fight each other?

The Oxford Mid-Century Studies series publishes monographs in several disciplinary and creative areas in order to create a thick description of culture in the thirty-year period around the Second World War.

Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome.

In works of literary fiction, it is a part of the fiction that the words of the text are being recounted by some work-internal 'voice': the literary narrator.

How advertising works is not a question that has a simple answer.

How advertising works is not a question that has a simple answer.

In this engagingly written history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, Jon Lawrence explores the changing relationship between politicians and public.

During the fertile decade 1955-65 the television institution emerged in a form which would be familiar for the next half century: this book attends to two aspects of its formation.