Susan Murray

Bright Signals

A History of Color Television

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Produktbeschreibung

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, and the coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture.

Produktdetails

• Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9780822371212
• ISBN-10: 0822371219
• Artikelnr.: 48889246

Autorenporträt

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, and the coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. "And Now—Color": Early Color Systems  11
2. Natural Vision Versus "Tele-Vision": Defining and Standardizing Color 
34
3. Color Adjustments: Experiments, Calibrations, and Color Training,
1950–1955  86
4. Colortown, USA: Expansion, Stabilization, and Promotion, 1955–1959  127
5. The Wonderful World of Color: Network Programming and the Spectacular
Real, 1960–1965  176
6. At the End of the Rainbow: Global Expansion, the Space Race, and the
Cold War  217
Conclusion  251
Notes  259
Bibliography  293
Index  303