1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009794690403321

Titolo

Handbook of biodegradable polymers [Risorsa elettronica] : synthesis, characterization, and applications / edited by Andreas Lendlein and Adam Sisson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2011

ISBN

9783527635818

Disciplina

620.192

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Sulla piattaforma Wiley il sottotitolo del volume: isolation, synthesis, characterization, and applications

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910743210103321

Autore

Murray Susan <1967->

Titolo

Bright signals : a history of color television / / Susan Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018

ISBN

9781478093664

1478093668

9780822371700

0822371707

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Sign, storage, transmission

Classificazione

AP 33200

Disciplina

621.388/04

Soggetti

Color television - History

Television broadcasting - Technological innovations - United States

Television broadcasting - United States - History

Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"And now: Color" : early color systems -- Natural vision versus "tele-



vision" : defining and standardizing color -- Color adjustments : experiments, calibrations, and color training, 1950-1955 -- Colortown, USA : expansion, stabilization, and promotion, 1955-1959 -- The wonderful world of color : network programming and the spectacular real, 1960-1965 -- At the end of the rainbow : global expansion, the space race, and the Cold War.

Sommario/riassunto

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.