Cable visions
Subtitle: television beyond broadcasting
By: edited by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, and Anthony Freitas
Contributors: Banet-Weiser, Sarah, 1966-; Chris, Cynthia, 1961-; Freitas, Anthony
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780814799499; 9780814799505
Subjects: Cable television -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The moms 'n' pops of CATV / Megan Mullen; title: A taste of class : pay-TV and the commodification of television in postwar America / John McMurria; title: Cable's digital future / François Bar and Jonathan Taplin; title: If it's not TV, what is it? the case of U.S. subscription television / Amanda D. Lotz; title: Where the cable ends : television beyond fringe areas / Lisa Parks; title: Discovery's wild discovery : the growth and globalization of TV's animal genres / Cynthia Chris; title: Tunnel vision and food : a political-economic analysis of Food Network / Cheri Ketchum; title: Target market black : BET and the branding of African America / Beretta E. Smith-Shumade; title: Monolingualism, biculturalism, and cable TV : HBO Latino and the promise of the multiplex / Katynka Z. Martínez; title: Gay programming, gay publics : public and private tensions in lesbian and gay cable channels / Anthony Freitas; title: The Nickelodeon brand : buying and selling the audience / Sarah Banet-Weiser; title: Cable watching : HBO, The Sopranos, and discourses of distinction / Dana Polan; title: Bank tellers and flag wavers : cable news in the United States / Toby Miller; title: Dualcasting : Bravo's gay programming and the quest for women audiences / Katherine Sender; title: "I'm rich, bitch!!!" : the comedy of Chappelle's Show / Christine Acham; title: Worldwide wrestling entertainment's global reach : Latino fans and wrestlers / Ellen Seiter