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

*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.


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