Watching TV
Subtitle: Eight Decades of American Television, Third Edition
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Jan 04, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780815634386
Description: "Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season story, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the contemporary era of anytime access and online streaming, including every prime time fall schedule since 1944. The authors have dug through the mounds of obscure facts offbeat anecdotes, and corporate strategies that have made television a multibillion-dollar industry. Watching TV provides a fascinating history of how the personalities, popular shows, and coverage of key events have evolved across eight decades. Full of facts, firsts, insights, and exploits, as well as rare and memorable photographs, Watching TV is the standard history of American television. This third edition includes coverage up through the mid-2010s and looks ahead to the next waves of change"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Source title: Watching TV: Eight Decades of American Television, Third Edition (Television and Popular Culture)