On Screen Rivals
Subtitle: Cinema and Television in the United States and Britain
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780312227678
Subjects: Special Subjects In Motion Pictures; Current Affairs; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Television - History & Criticism; Film & Video - General; Mass Media; Television - General; Great Britain; Motion pictures and television; Television Broadcasting; United States
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.