Archive for September 2018

[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]

[ecrea] Bright Signals: A History of Color Television - Susan Murray

Sat Sep 08 06:34:45 GMT 2018




*Bright Signals***

  A History of Color Television

*Susan Murray***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/bright-signals_**__*


First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all three networks in the 1960s, color television was imagined as a new way of seeing that was distinct from both monochrome television and other forms of color media. It also inspired compelling popular, scientific, and industry conversations about the use and meaning of color and its effects on emotions, vision, and desire. In /Bright Signals/ Susan Murray traces these wide-ranging debates within and beyond the television industry, positioning the story of color television, which was replete with false starts, failure, and ingenuity, as central to the broader history of twentieth-century visual culture. In so doing, she shows how color television disrupted and reframed the very idea of television while it simultaneously revealed the tensions about technology's relationship to consumerism, human sight, and the natural world.

*Susan Murray*is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, the author of /Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom./

*Duke University Press**| Sign, Storage, Transmission | June 2018 | 320pp | 9780822371304 | Paperback | £20.99**


*Television Cities***

  Paris, London, Baltimore

*Charlotte Brunsdon***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/television-cities_**__*

In /Television Cities/ Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon shows how the BBC's presentation of 1960s Paris in the detective series Maigret signals British culture's engagement with twentieth-century modernity and continental Europe, while various portrayals of London—ranging from Dickens adaptations to the 1950s nostalgia of /Call the Midwife/—demonstrate Britain's complicated transition from Victorian metropole to postcolonial social democracy. Finally, an analysis of The Wire’s acclaimed examination of Baltimore, marks the profound shifts in the ways television is now made and consumed. Illuminating the myriad factors that make television cities, Brunsdon complicates our understanding of how television shapes perceptions of urban spaces, both familiar and unknown.

*Charlotte Brunsdon*is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick and the author of several books, including /London in Cinema: The Cinematic City Since 1945/ and /The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera./

*Duke University Press**| Spin Offs | February 2018 | 232pp | 9780822369202 | Paperback | £18.99**

*Price subject to change.


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------


[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]