On Screen Rivals
Subtitle: Cinema and Television in the United States and Britain
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 3, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780312227685
Subjects: Television - History & Criticism; History / United States / General; Film & Video - General; Mass Media; Television - General; Current Affairs; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Great Britain; Motion pictures and television; Television broadcasting; United States; Cinema/Film: Book
First sentence: It is a commonplace in historical accounts of the media to refer to the 'advent' of a new technology, and television seems especially prone to being the subject of this metaphor.