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The Magic Window: American Television ,1939-1953,9780789015068
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The Magic Window: American Television ,1939-1953


Author(s): Von Schilling, James A.
ISBN10:  0789015064
ISBN13:  9780789015068
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  11/4/2002
Publisher(s): Routledge

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Table of Contents
Preface xi
The Beginning of Everything
1(20)
Television's Debut
1(1)
The Jenkins Television System
2(2)
RCA Television
4(4)
Television's First Season
8(2)
Test-marketing in Newburgh
10(2)
The FCC's First Report on TV
12(3)
The Amber Light
15(3)
Hearings in Washington
18(3)
A Torch of Hope
21(12)
The Future Appears in Newburgh
21(1)
The War in Europe
22(2)
The 1940 Republican Convention
24(4)
A Disappointing Fall
28(2)
Debating TV's Future in 1941
30(3)
In a Troubled World
33(22)
The 1941 FCC Hearings
33(2)
The Beginning of Commercial TV
35(3)
The Summer of 1941
38(2)
The Buildup to War
40(2)
Wartime Television
42(3)
Schenectady's WRGB
45(2)
Plans for Postwar TV
47(1)
Television As a War Weapon
48(2)
The Studios Reopen
50(3)
TV's First Censored Program
53(2)
The Winds of Postwar
55(14)
The Homefront TV War
55(1)
The 1944 Conventions
56(3)
TV Programs Blossom Again
59(2)
Docket No. 6651
61(3)
TV and the End of the War
64(5)
Turning the Corner
69(24)
The Camera with the Eyes of a Cat
69(1)
TV Begins in Washington
70(2)
The Louis-Conn Fight
72(1)
Hour Glass
73(1)
The New Postwar Sets
74(3)
The Bikini Bomb Explosion
77(1)
Surveying the TV Viewer
78(1)
The Emerging Genres
79(2)
Drama in Washington
81(1)
The First Color Telecasts
82(2)
Integration on TV
84(1)
The Second Wave of TV Stations
85(2)
The ``Split'' TV Audience
87(2)
Television and Women
89(2)
Middlebrow Television
91(2)
From Boom to Berle
93(24)
The 1947 World Series
93(2)
Puppet Playhouse
95(2)
The Expanding Network
97(2)
The ``Original Amateur'' Network
99(2)
``Miss Television of 1948''
101(1)
``Mr. Television''
102(2)
The 1948 Conventions
104(3)
The Cold War on Television
107(1)
CBS's Revival
108(1)
The Big Freeze
109(1)
The 1948 Election
110(2)
Selling Sugar and Tobacco
112(2)
Radio Takes Notice
114(3)
Conflicts in the Air
117(28)
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
117(1)
The Cultural Backlash Begins
118(1)
Censoring TV's Contents
119(2)
The ``Golden Hope'' and The Goldbergs
121(2)
The Admiral Broadway Revue
123(2)
The Berle Phenomenon
125(2)
A Midseason Slump
127(1)
Wrestling and Roller Derby
128(2)
The 1949 World Series
130(1)
The Chicago School of Television
131(2)
Cavalcade of Stars
133(2)
Hopalong Cassidy
135(2)
The New Bomb and the ``Red Scare''
137(3)
Faye Emerson
140(1)
TV's Effects on Children
141(4)
Comics and Communists
145(20)
Your Show of Shows
145(2)
The ``Bandit Raid'' on Korea
147(2)
Red Channels
149(3)
The Invasion of Comics
152(2)
Jack Benny and Fred Allen
154(2)
Groucho Marx and Martin and Lewis
156(2)
Jackie Gleason and the Cavalcade of Stars
158(2)
Truman and MacArthur
160(2)
Expanding the Daily Schedule
162(3)
Linking Coast to Coast
165(30)
Color TV Begins
165(1)
The Crime Commission Hearings
166(2)
Amos `n' Andy
168(2)
Hollywood and the Coast-to-Coast Link
170(3)
The Birth of I Love Lucy
173(2)
The ``Hollywood Boom'' Begins
175(2)
The Today Show
177(2)
New Hampshire and ``Ike''
179(1)
The Freeze Is Lifted
180(2)
Lucy Takes Over
182(1)
The 1952 Conventions
183(3)
Congress and the Code
186(1)
The FCC and Blacklisting
187(2)
Dragnet
189(1)
Live Drama from New York
190(5)
Liking Ike and Loving Lucy
195(16)
The Checkers Speech
195(2)
Lucy Is Pregnant
197(1)
Ozzie and Harriet
198(1)
See It Now
199(3)
The Birth and the Inauguration
202(1)
The ABC-Paramount Merger
203(2)
The End of the Du Mont Network
205(1)
The End of the Beginning
206(5)
Notes 211(16)
Index 227

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