This book offers both a clear account of theoretical approaches to television drama and readings of a range of television drama texts. Arguing that TV drama is a key site for exploring the usefulness of contemporary theories of identity, culture and representation, it offers a framework which links this analysis to theoretical concepts explored elsewhere in cultural, media and film studies over recent years. Each chapter provides a critical account of a specific theoretical approach, outlining its history and scope, and demonstrating its application across a range of TV dramas, ending with a close reading of particular examples. Organized around the themes of identity and subjectivity, the book encompasses a wide range of approaches and texts, from sitcom, to docudrama, to sci fi, and is an ideal resource for undergraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, and television and film studies.
Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture by Thomas Doherty, ISBN 0231129521
Conventional wisdom holds that television was coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, but Doherty argues that it was through television that America actually became a more open and tolerant place.
Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture by Thomas Doherty, ISBN 0231129521
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Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture
Contrary to arguments that television is detrimental to democracy, Entertaining Politics explores the role of new political television in shaping a changing civic culture. Jeffrey P. Jones shows how viewers understand and make use of the increasingly blurred lines between 'serious' and 'entertainment' programming and argues that alarmist critics who predict the end of politics in the age of television have misconstrued the role of the medium and the commitment of audiences to both TV and public life.
Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture
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How the Internet Works
Divided into nine illustrated sections, this eighth edition starts with a brief introduction to the Internet and its architecture and includes eight additional sections that cover everything from connecting and communicating on the Internet, security and privacy, entertainment and multimedia, Intranets, eCommerce and more.
How the Internet Works
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Cyberpolitics: Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet by Kevin A. Hill, ISBN 0847687430
Cyberpolitics goes beyond the hype to analyze the content of political discussion on the Internet and to see how the Internet is being used politically. Empirical research translated into dozens of graphically compelling figures and tables illuminates for the first time Internet characteristics heretofore only speculated about: Who are the cybercitizens using the Internet, how do they participate in the political process, and who uses the Internet most effectively to accomplish political ends? The authors' conclusion should be reassuring to Internet utopians and dystopians alike: As the Internet grows, it will change the nature of political action, discourse, and effect less than it will itself be changed by politics. Along the way, we learn a lot about politics on the Internet and off-in the U.S. and around the world; left, right, and center.
Cyberpolitics: Citizen Activism in the Age of the Internet by Kevin A. Hill, ISBN 0847687430
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IP Over Dwdm: Building the Next Generation Optical Internet by Sudhir Dixit, ISBN 0471212482
The next generation of optical networking
To keep up with the demand for internet bandwidth, network providers are increasingly deploying fiber-optic systems that can carry hundreds of wavelengths in a single fiber. With high-data-rate wireless networks on the verge of being interfaced with the fiber backbone, the implementation of dense wavelength division multiplexing, or WDM, is poised to revolutionize communications technology. It is already opening the way to new business opportunities and can be expected to determine the future of SONET/SDH, ATM, and other key technologies.
Though its potential is obvious, Internet Protocol(IP) over WDM has not received the comprehensive technical treatment it warrants. This book, edited by a leader in the field and contributed to by a stellar collection of experts from around the world, offers comprehensive and practical information on the transport of the IP over the optical/WDM layer.
Balancing theory and application, the reference explains...
IP Over Dwdm: Building the Next Generation Optical Internet by Sudhir Dixit, ISBN 0471212482
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960 by Hugh Richard Slotten, ISBN 080186450X
From AM radio to color television, broadcasting raised enormous practical and policy problems in the United States, especially in relation to the federal government's role in licensing and regulation. How did technological change, corporate interest, and political pressures bring about the world that station owners work within today (and that tuned-in consumers make profitable)? In Radio and Television Regulation, Hugh R. Slotten examines the choices that confronted federal agencies -- first the Department of Commerce, then the Federal Radio Commission in 1927, and the Federal Communications Commission in 1934 -- and shows the impact of their decisions on developing technologies.
Slotten analyzes the policy debates that emerged when the public implications of AM and FM radio and black-and-white and color television first became apparent. His discussion of the early years of radio examines powerful personalities -- navy secretary Josephus Daniels and commerce secretary Herbert Hoover ...
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960 by Hugh Richard Slotten, ISBN 080186450X
Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars!: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom
"Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars" is the first cultural and industrial history of early television stardom. Susan Murray argues that television stars were central to the growth and development of American broadcasting. They were used not only to promote programs and the sale of television sets and advertised consumer goods, but also to established network identities. Through profiles of well-known performers including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, and Lucille Ball, she shows how the television industry gave birth to the idea of TV stars and established a system of star production and management notably different from the Hollywood star system of the studio era.
Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars!: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom
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