Cultures in orbit : satellites and the televisual
By: Lisa Parks.
Series: Console-ing passions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Television broadcasting -- Social aspects; Direct broadcast satellite television
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Satellite spectacular : our world and the fantasy of global presence; title: Satellite footprints : Imparja TV and postcolonial flows in Australia; title: Satellite witnessing : views and coverage of the war in Bosnia; title: Satellite archaeology : remote sensing Cleopatra in Egypt; title: Satellite panoramas : astronomical observation and remote control; title: Conclusion.