Fifties Television

Author : William Boddy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 025206299X

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Fifties Television by William Boddy Pdf

Just a few years in the mid-1950s separated the "golden age" of television's live anthology drama from Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" pronouncement. Fifties Television shows how the significant programming changes of the period cannot be attributed simply to shifting public tastes or the exhaustion of particular program genres, but underscore fundamental changes in the way prime-time entertainment programs were produced, sponsored, and scheduled. These changes helped shape television as we know it today. William Boddy provides a wide-ranging and rigorous analysis of the fledgling American television industry during the period of its greatest economic growth, programming changes, and critical controversy. He carefully traces the development of the medium from the experimental era of the 1920s and 1930s through the regulatory battles of the 1940s and the network programming wars of the 1950s.

Author : Mary Ellen Sterling
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576900277

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The Fifties by Mary Ellen Sterling Pdf

Author : Joel Foreman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nineteen fifties
ISBN : 0252065743

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The Other Fifties by Joel Foreman Pdf

From the Edsel to Eisenhower, from Mau Mau to Doris Day, and from Ayn Rand to Elvis, contributors to The Other Fifties topple the decade's already weakened image as a time of unprecedented peace, prosperity, and conformity. Representing the fifties as a period of cultural transformation, contributors reveal the gradual "unmaking" of traditions and value systems that took place as American culture prepared itself for the more easily observed cultural turbulence of the 1960s. Well known contributors demonstrate how television, the novel, the Hollywood movie, the Broadway musical, and rock and roll assaulted midcentury American attitudes toward sexuality, race, gender, and class, so altering public sensibilities that what was novel or shocking in the fifties seems tame or even downright difficult to grasp today. They also rebut the widely held view that 1950s consumerism led to cultural homogeneity, replacing this view with a picture of robust popular markets that defied conservative controls and actively subverted conventional norms and values. Brushing away the haze of an era, The Other Fifties will help readers understand the decade not as placid or repressed, but as a time when emancipatory desires struggled to articulate themselves.

Author : Eleonora Ravizza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662618745

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Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture by Eleonora Ravizza Pdf

In this book, Eleonora Ravizza analyzes how contemporary American popular culture has represented and reproduced the fifties. By investigating the cultural work of films and TV series from the last two decades, the book uncovers the inherent limitations of a ‘revisionist’ take on the fifties. Ravizza argues that, due to the visual nature of the fifties—crystallized in American consciousness through the widespread influence of television—most contemporary attempts to rework and rewrite the regressive gender, queer, and racial politics fall short of such a revisionist reevaluation. ​

Author : Andrew J. Dunar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0815631286

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America in the Fifties by Andrew J. Dunar Pdf

Blessed by a booming economy, the United States experienced the benefits of technology in the 1950s, with television and the automobile transforming the way people lived, and the space race offering new challenges. At the same time, the nation faced domestic divisions and international crises that would have far-reaching historical and political consequences. The 1950s evoke images of prosperity, suburbia, a smiling President Eisenhower, cars with elaborate tail fins, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and the "golden age" of television-seemingly a simpler time in which the idealized family life of situation comedies had at least some basis in reality. A closer examination, however, recalls more threatening images: the hysteria of McCarthyism, the shadow of the atomic bomb, war in Korea, the Soviet threat manifested in the launch of Sputnik and the bombast of Nikita Khrushchev, and a clash over the integration of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Andrew J. Dunar successfully shows how the issues confronting America in the late twentieth century have roots in the fifties, some apparent at the time, others only in retrospect: civil rights, environmentalism, the counterculture, and "movements" on behalf of women, Latinos, and Native Americans. The rise of the "beats," the continuing development of jazz, the emergence of rock ‘n’ roll, and the art of Jackson Pollock reveal the decade to be less conformist than commonly portrayed. While the cold war rivalry with the Soviet Union generated the most concern, Dunar skillfully illustrates how the rise of Nasser in Egypt, Castro in Cuba, and Communist regimes in North Korea, Vietnam, and China signaled new regional challenges to American power. This book will be ideal for instructors of American history survey courses at the high school and undergraduate levels.

Author : C. Miller,A. Van Riper,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230377325

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1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans by C. Miller,A. Van Riper,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

The fourteen essays featured here focus on series such as Space Patrol, Tom Corbett, and Captain Z-Ro, exploring their roles in the day-to-day lives of their fans through topics such as mentoring, promotion of the real-world space program, merchandising, gender issues, and ranger clubs - all the while promoting the fledgling medium of television.

Author : Amanda D. Lotz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814752322

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The Television Will be Revolutionized by Amanda D. Lotz Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 After occupying a central space in American living rooms for the past fifty years, is television, as we’ve known it, dead? The capabilities and features of that simple box have been so radically redefined that it’s now nearly unrecognizable. Today, viewers with digital video recorders such as TiVo may elect to circumvent scheduling constraints and commercials. Owners of iPods and other portable viewing devices are able to download the latest episodes of their favorite shows and watch them whenever and wherever they want. Still others rent television shows on DVD, or download them through legal and illegal sources online. But these changes have not been hastening the demise of the medium. They are revolutionizing it. The Television Will Be Revolutionized examines television at the turn of the twenty-first century —:what Amanda D. Lotz terms the “post-network” era. Television, both as a technology and a tool for cultural storytelling, remains as important today as ever, but it has changed in fundamental ways as the result of technological innovations, proliferating cable channels targeting ever more specific niche audiences, and evolving forms of advertising such as product placement and branded entertainment. Many of the conventional practices and even the industry’s basic business model are proving unworkable in this new context, resulting in a crisis in norms and practices. Through interviews with those working in the industry, attendance of various industry summits and meetings, surveys of trade publications, and consideration of an extensive array of popular television shows, Lotz takes us behind the screen to explore what is changing, why it’s changing, and why these changes matter.

Author : James S. Olson,Mariah Gumpert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440861338

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The 1950s by James S. Olson,Mariah Gumpert Pdf

This volume serves as an invaluable guide to key political, social, and cultural concepts of the 1950s. This volume covers the entire decade of the 1950s, from the uneasy peace following World War II to the beginnings of cultural discontent that would explode in the 1960s. It highlights key historical, social, and cultural elements of the period, including the Cold War and perceived communist threat; the birth of the middle class and establishment of consumer culture; the emergence of the civil rights movement; and the normalization of youth rebellion and rock and roll. An introduction presents the historical themes of the period, and an alphabetical encyclopedic entries relating to period-specific themes comprises the core reference material in the book. The book also contains a range of primary documents with introductions and a sample Documents Based Essay Question. Other features are a list of "Top Tips" for answering Documents Based Essay Questions, a thematically tagged chronology, and a list of specific learning objectives readers can use to gauge their working knowledge and understanding of the period.

Author : Susan Murray
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822371700

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Bright Signals by Susan Murray Pdf

First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all three networks in the 1960s, color television was imagined as a new way of seeing that was distinct from both monochrome television and other forms of color media. It also inspired compelling popular, scientific, and industry conversations about the use and meaning of color and its effects on emotions, vision, and desire. In Bright Signals Susan Murray traces these wide-ranging debates within and beyond the television industry, positioning the story of color television, which was replete with false starts, failure, and ingenuity, as central to the broader history of twentieth-century visual culture. In so doing, she shows how color television disrupted and reframed the very idea of television while it simultaneously revealed the tensions about technology's relationship to consumerism, human sight, and the natural world.

Author : Jonathan Gray,Amanda D. Lotz
Publisher : Polity
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780745650999

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Television Studies by Jonathan Gray,Amanda D. Lotz Pdf

Major short introduction to the field of television studies. Clearly lays out the birth of this discipline, shows its links with other fields of study and explains key concepts and theoretical debates. Includes interview material with scholars whose work has defined the field.

Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2800 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135194796

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Encyclopedia of Television by Horace Newcomb Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.

Author : Aniko Bodroghkozy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118646052

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A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting by Aniko Bodroghkozy Pdf

Presented in a single volume, this engaging review reflects on the scholarship and the historical development of American broadcasting A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting comprehensively evaluates the vibrant history of American radio and television and reveals broadcasting’s influence on American history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With contributions from leading scholars on the topic, this wide-ranging anthology explores the impact of broadcasting on American culture, politics, and society from an historical perspective as well as the effect on our economic and social structures. The text’s original and accessibly-written essays offer explorations on a wealth of topics including the production of broadcast media, the evolution of various television and radio genres, the development of the broadcast ratings system, the rise of Spanish language broadcasting in the United States, broadcast activism, African Americans and broadcasting, 1950’s television, and much more. This essential resource: Presents a scholarly overview of the history of radio and television broadcasting and its influence on contemporary American history Contains original essays from leading academics in the field Examines the role of radio in the television era Discusses the evolution of regulations in radio and television Offers insight into the cultural influence of radio and television Analyzes canonical texts that helped shape the field Written for students and scholars of media studies and twentieth-century history, A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting is an essential and field-defining guide to the history and historiography of American broadcasting and its many cultural, societal, and political impacts.

Author : Nina C. Leibman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015034426125

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Living Room Lectures by Nina C. Leibman Pdf

Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0809388448

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Lost in the Fifties by Anonim Pdf

Wheeler Dixon examines the lost films and directors of the 1950s. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, the author's 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues and television shows such as 'Captain Midnight' are juxtaposed with the cheerful world of 'I Love Lucy'.

Author : David C. Tucker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455829

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Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television by David C. Tucker Pdf

Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work are seldom seen today and receive only brief and often incomplete and inaccurate mentions in most reference sources. Yet these sitcoms (including Angel, The Governor and J.J., It's a Great Life, I'm Dickens ... He's Fenster and Wendy and Me), and the stories of the talented people who made them, are an integral part of television history. With a complete list of production credits and rare publicity stills, this volume, based on multiple screenings of episodes, corrects other sources and expand our knowledge of television history.