Only Connect A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States (with InfoTrac)

by Hilmes, Michele

• ISBN13: 9780534551353
• ISBN10: 0534551351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-06
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This first edition provides students with an understandable connection between the regulatory policies and industrial aspects of broadcast history and cultural contexts with audience reactions. This text engages students by providing a greater understanding and appreciation of the historical development of broadcasting in the U.S., especially with regard to the sociocultural, political and economic contexts, which account for the manner in which broadcasting developed. ONLY CONNECT presents a more unified version of a history of both radio and television, from a critical studies perspective.

Table of Contents

1. Making History

2. Before Broadcasting

3. Broadcasting Begins: 1919-1926

4. Commercial Network Broadcasting: 1926-1940

5. Radio for Everyone: 1926-1940

6. War At Home and Abroad: 1940-1945

7. At Last Television: 1945-1955

8. The Domesticated Medium, 1955-1965

9. The Classic Network System: 1965-1975

10. Rising Discontent: 1975-1985

11. The Big Change: 1985-1995

12. Digital Convergence

13. Going Global

14. 2000 and Beyond: Looking Backward