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9780822326830

Ambient Television

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822326830

  • ISBN10:

    0822326833

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"An unusually rich, ambitious, and engaging work. McCarthy has produced a significant piece of scholarship that will have wide impact upon the way television is taken up in the academy and elsewhere."--William Boddy, Baruch College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Public Lives of TV 1(26)
PART I: HISTORIES AND INSTITUTIONS
Rhetorics of TV Spectatorship Outside the Home
27(2)
TV, Class, and Social Control in the 1940s Neighborhood Tavern
29(34)
Gendered Fantasies of TV Shopping in the Postwar Department Store
63(26)
Out-of-Home Networks in the 1990s
89(28)
PART II: PLACES AND PRACTICES
Reading TV Installations in Daily Life
115(2)
Shaping Public and Private Space with TV Screens
117(38)
Television at the Point of Purchase
155(40)
Television While You Wait
195(30)
Terminal Thoughts on Art, Activism, and Video for Public Places
225(28)
Notes 253(34)
Works Cited 287(18)
Index 305

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