Hollywood And Broadcasting

Author : Michele Hilmes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252054938

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Hollywood and Broadcasting by Michele Hilmes Pdf

"Michele Hilmes has produced an excellent introduction to a most important subject. This is an invaluable work for both scholars and students that places film, radio, and television within the context of the national culture experience." --- American Historical Review "Hilmes is one of the few historians of broadcasting to move beyond a political economy of the media. . . . Her work should serve as a model for future histories of broadcasting." --- Journal of Communication "All media historians will find this work a critical addition to their bookshelves." --- American Journalism "A major addition to media history literature." --- Journalism History

Author : Jennifer Porst
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813596235

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Broadcasting Hollywood by Jennifer Porst Pdf

Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on Early Television uses extensive archival research into the files of studios, networks, advertising agencies, unions and guilds, theatre associations, the FCC, and key legal cases to analyze the tensions and synergies between the film and television industries in the early years of television. This analysis of the case study of the struggle over Hollywood’s feature films appearing on television in the 1940s and 1950s illustrates that the notion of an industry misunderstands the complex array of stakeholders who work in and profit from a media sector, and models a variegated examination of the history of media industries. Ultimately, it draws a parallel to the contemporary period and the introduction of digital media to highlight the fact that history repeats itself and can therefore play a key role in helping media industry scholars and practitioners to understand and navigate contemporary industrial phenomena.

Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317929154

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Hollywood in the Age of Television by Tino Balio Pdf

This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and TV industries are looked at, concluding that Hollywood and television had a symbiotic relationship from the start. Aspects covered include the movement of audiences, the rise of the independent producer, the introduction of colour and the emergence of network structure, cable TV and video recorders. Originally published in 1990.

Author : Janet Wasko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780745669021

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Hollywood in the Information Age by Janet Wasko Pdf

This is a major new assessment of the American movie industry in the 1990's, focusing on the development of new communication technologies such as cable and home video and examining their impact on the production and distribution of motion pictures.

Author : William Boddy
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Television broadcasting
ISBN : 0252017099

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Fifties Television by William Boddy Pdf

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 : Christopher Anderson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292759534

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Hollywood TV by Christopher Anderson Pdf

The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry. This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms. Drawing on the archives of Warner Bros. and David O. Selznick Productions and on interviews with participants in both industries, Christopher Anderson demonstrates how the episodic telefilm series, a clear descendant of the feature film, became and has remained the dominant narrative form in prime-time TV. This research suggests that the postwar motion picture industry was less an empire on the verge of ruin—as common wisdom has it—than one struggling under unsettling conditions to redefine its frontiers. Beyond the obvious contribution to film and television studies, these findings add an important chapter to the study of American popular culture of the postwar period.

Author : Peter Decherney
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231159470

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Hollywood's Copyright Wars by Peter Decherney Pdf

Beginning with Thomas Edison's aggressive copyright disputes and concluding with recent lawsuits against YouTube, Hollywood's Copyright Wars follows the struggle of the film, television, and digital media industries to influence and adapt to copyright law. Though much of Hollywood's engagement with the law occurs offstage, in the larger theater of copyright, many of Hollywood's most valued treasures, from Modern Times (1936) to Star Wars (1977), cannot be fully understood without appreciating their legal controversies. Peter Decherney shows that the history of intellectual property in Hollywood has not always mirrored the evolution of the law and recounts these extralegal solutions and their impact on American media and culture.

Author : Eric Hoyt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520282636

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Hollywood Vault by Eric Hoyt Pdf

Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new technologies but because of the emergence and growth of new markets, and suggests that studying the history of film libraries leads to insights about their role in the contemporary digital marketplace. The history begins in the mid-1910s, when the star system and other developments enabled a market for old films that featured current stars. After the transition to films with sound, the reissue market declined but the studios used their libraries for the production of remakes and other derivatives. The turning point in the history of studio libraries occurred during the mid to late 1940s, when changes in American culture and an industry-wide recession convinced the studios to employ their libraries as profit centers through the use of theatrical reissues. In the 1950s, intermediary distributors used the growing market of television to harness libraries aggressively as foundations for cross-media expansion, a trend that continues today. By the late 1960s, the television marketplace and the exploitation of film libraries became so lucrative that they prompted conglomerates to acquire the studios. The first book to discuss film libraries as an important and often underestimated part of Hollywood history, Hollywood Vault presents a fascinating trajectory that incorporates cultural, legal, and industrial history.

Author : John Hill,Martin McLoone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 1860200052

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Big Picture, Small Screen by John Hill,Martin McLoone Pdf

This work features contributions from academics and media professionals who ask: what is the history of involvement between film and television in the US, Europe, Britain and Ireland; what are the sources of television finance for film; and what are the consequences for the type of film made?

Author : Gregory Paul Williams
Publisher : www.storyofhollywood.com
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0977629902

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The Story of Hollywood by Gregory Paul Williams Pdf

Before the film industry arrived, Hollywood was filled with quaint bungalows, millionaires' estates, and churches dedicated to teetotalism. Movies shattered Hollywood's tranquillity, and brought wealth, fame and glamorous movie stars. The giants of the movie industry invented klieg-lighted movie premieres and the Academy Awards in Hollywood. Go beyond the star-studded surface to the district's days of union busting, gangsters, and scandal, foreshadowing Hollywood's seedy decline. The book concludes with Hollywood's redevelopment that continues today. The book features the famous faces and places that made the town legendary, offering a unique perspective on celebrity nightlife and the behind-the-scenes stories of day-to-day life. Lavishly illustrated with over 800 vintage images from the author's private collection, "The Story of Hollywood" brings new insights to readers with a passion for Hollywood and its place in the history of film, radio, and television.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Radio advertising
ISBN : UOM:39015080101259

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Broadcasting: Yearbook-marketbook Issue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michele Hilmes
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816626219

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Radio Voices by Michele Hilmes Pdf

Looks at the history of radio broadcasting as an aspect of American culture, and discusses social tensions, radio formats, and the roles of African Americans and women

Author : Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520295049

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Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley Pdf

"Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and radio was the most powerful and pervasive mass medium in the US. In 23 years of weekly radio broadcasts, by aiming all the insults at himself, Benny created Jack, the self-deprecating "Fall Guy" character. He indelibly shaped American humor as a space to enjoy the equal opportunities of easy camaraderie with his cast mates, and equal ego deflation. Benny was the master of comic timing, knowing just when to use silence to create suspense or to have a character leap into the dialogue to puncture Jack's pretentions. Jack Benny was also a canny entrepreneur, becoming one of the pioneering "showrunners" combining producer, writer and performer into one job. His modern style of radio humor eschewed stale jokes in favor informal repartee with comic hecklers like his valet Rochester (played by Eddie Anderson) and Mary Livingstone his offstage wife. These quirky characters bouncing off each other in humorous situations created the situation comedy. In this career study, we learn how Jack Benny found ingenious ways to sell his sponsors' products in comic commercials beloved by listeners, and how he dealt with the challenges of race relations, rigid gender ideals and an insurgent new media industry (TV). Jack Benny created classic comedy for a rapidly changing American culture, providing laughter that buoyed radio listeners from 1932's depths of the Great Depression, through World War II to the mid-1950s"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lynn Spigel,Michael Curtin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135205409

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The Revolution Wasn't Televised by Lynn Spigel,Michael Curtin Pdf

Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life, it became the object of intense debates over childraising, education, racism, gender, technology, politics, violence, and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society, attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s.

Author : Thomas Doherty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231500122

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Pre-Code Hollywood by Thomas Doherty Pdf

Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films—a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema—but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. In a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up and push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man, marriage ridiculed and redefined, ethnic lines crossed and racial barriers ignored, economic injustice exposed and political corruption assumed, vice unpunished and virtue unrewarded—in sum, pretty much the raw stuff of American culture, unvarnished and unveiled. No other book has yet sought to interpret the films and film-related meanings of the pre-Code era—what defined the period, why it ended, and what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression... and afterward.