American television
Subtitle: new directions in history and theory
By: edited by Nick Browne.
Contributors: Browne, Nick.
Series: Studies in film and video ;; v. 2
Publisher: Harwood Academic Pub.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Langhorne, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Television broadcasting -- United States.; Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
Description: This book brings together the most important writing on television published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, from classic essays by Nick Browne and Beverle Houston to the latest cutting-edge historical and critical research. It considers television's economics, technologies, forms, and audiences from a cultural perspective that links history, theory, and criticism.

The authors are leaders in the field, and they address several key issues: the formative period in American television history; the relation between television's political economy and its cultural forms; gender and melodrama; and new technologies such as video games and camcorders. This breadth of coverage brings basic and defining scholarship to the field of television studies.

. This volume should appeal to scholars, students, and laypeople interested in television, communications, critical theory, and cultural studies. Libraries at research and teaching institutions will find it indispensable.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.