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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449714903321

Autore

Boyle Deirdre

Titolo

Subject to change : guerrilla television revisited / / Deirdre Boyle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-19-802707-9

1-60256-160-5

1-280-43964-5

9786610439645

1-4237-3606-0

0-19-536459-7

1-60129-623-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

791.45/0973/09046

Soggetti

Video recordings - Political aspects

Documentary television programs - Political aspects

Public-access television - United States

Public television - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Underground Video; 2. Subject to Change; 3. Guerrilla versus Grassroots; 4. The World's Largest TV Studio; 5. Mountain Guerrilla; 6. Four More Years; 7. Communitube; 8. Gaga Over Guru; 9. Prime Time TV TV; 10. Broadside TV; 11. Impeaching Evidence; 12. Changing Channels; 13. Furor Over Fugitive; 14. Living Newsletter?; 15. The Good Times Are Killing Me; 16. Super Video; 17. Intermedia; 18. Hooray for Hollywood?; 19. The Big Chill; 20. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a history of ""guerilla television"", a form of TV which was part of an alternative media tide sweeping the United States in the 1960's. Inspired by the fracturing issues of the decade and the theories and



writings of various exponents, guerilla television put forth ""utopian"" programming.