Republic on the Wire : : Cable Television, Pluralism, and the Politics of New Technologies, 1948-1984 / / John McMurria.
The history of cable television in America is far older than networks like MTV, ESPN, and HBO, which are so familiar to us today. Tracing the origins of cable TV back to the late 1940s, media scholar John McMurria also locates the roots of many current debates about premium television, cultural elit...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: American Pluralism, Television Policy, and the Method of Equality
- 1. Broadcast Policy, Television Spectrum, and the Pluralist Logics of Inequality
- 2. Contesting (In)Equality at the Margins of Television Reception
- 3. Pay-TV Orders
- 4. Local Origination, Public Access, and the Hierarchical Logics of Civic Culture
- 5. Blue Skies, Black Cultures
- Epilogue: Neutrality, Connectivity, or Equality When Media Converge
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index