Bøker av William Boddy

Offers an account of the ways in which successive media of electronic communication have been anticipated, debated, and taken up in the twentieth-century United States. Illuminating both the continuities and disjunctions between old media and new, this book offers insights into the relationship between technological change and cultural form.

William Boddy provides a wide-ranging, rigorous analysis of the fledging American television industry during the period of its greatest economic growth, programming changes, and critical controversy. He traces the medium's development from the experimental era through the regulatory battles of the 1940s and the network programming wars of the 1950s.