Television: An International History
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 April 1998
- ISBN 9780198159285
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 244x189x17 mm
- Weight 615 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is revised and substantially expanded edition of the first major international history of television. Written by a distinguished international team of experts, it traces the evolution of television from the earliest times to the present. The new edition includes six new chapters extending its coverage to include India and China, the Arab World, Latin America, Canada and Northern Europe and Scandinavia.
MoreLong description:
From its earliest beginnings, television was destined to become one of the great new forces at work in the twentieth century. This new edition (which includes six completely new chapters) greatly expands the original and unique historical coverage of this most influential cultural phenomenon.
Written by a distinguished international team of specialists, the book describes the history of television from its technical conception in the nineteenth century right through to the bewildering multi-media developments of the present. Alongside this historical account, chapters provide important discussion of the central debates affecting television world-wide, from America, Canada, and Britain to Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, China, South Asia, the Arab world, Australia, Africa, and the Third World. All genres of programme making --news, sport, drama, comedy --are examined in the light of key questions: how viewing practices affect particular societies; how standards of taste and decency are arrived at; the influence of television of government power; the role of public service broadcasting; and the relationship of television to terrorism and violence. A thought-provoking Epilogue ponders the likely impact and influence of television in the coming years.
This book is accessibly written and is a major exploration of the world's most dominant medium.
QUOTES FROM THE FIRST EDITION
`Those who wish to take a close look at the way television has affected the lives of people in other countries as well as their own will find all the information they need here . . . a work which will earn its keep in the reference libraries, but also merits a place on the bookshelves of individuals.' THES
`For those desiring to fully understand the medium that has dominated the later twentieth century.' The Business of Film
`What a terrific assembly of contributors to document an international story of television . . . so many outstanding features in this book . . . an important addition to documenting the global story of television in a single volume.' Journalism History
Those who wish to take a close look at the way television has affected the lives of people in other countries as well as their own will find all the information they need here ... a work which will earn its keep in the reference libraries, but also merits a place on the bookshelves of individuals.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART 1. ORIGINS AND INSTITUTIONS
The Invention of Television
The Beginnings of American Television
Television as a Public Service Medium
PART 2. FORMS AND GENRES
Drama and Entertainment
Non-Fiction Television
Sport
Political Ceremony and Instant History
PART 3. TELEVISION AND SOCIETY
Television in the Home and Family
Taste, Decency, and Standards
Terrorism
PART 4
The American Networks
Canada
Japan
The Arab World
The Third World
South Asia
Australia
Scandinavia, Netherlands, Belgium
Africa
China
Latin America
Epilogue: The Future
Further Reading
Television Museums and Archives
