Cable Visions : Television Beyond Broadcasting / / Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, Anthony Freitas
| Cable Visions : Television Beyond Broadcasting / / Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, Anthony Freitas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2007] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384.5550973 |
| Soggetto topico | Cable television - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Cable
Visions alternatives beyond broadcastings cables capacity commercial consider critically interest looks mainstream media public serve toward |
| ISBN | 0-8147-3924-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. The Moms ’n’ Pops of CATV -- 2. A Taste of Class: Pay-TV and the Commodification of Television in Postwar America -- 3. Cable’s Digital Future -- 4. If It’s Not TV, What Is It? The Case of U.S. Subscription Television -- 5. Where the Cable Ends: Television beyond Fringe Areas -- Introduction -- 6. Discovery’s Wild Discovery: The Growth and Globalization of TV’s Animal Genres -- 7. Tunnel Vision and Food: A Political-Economic Analysis of Food Network -- 8. Target Market Black: BET and the Branding of African America -- 9. Monolingualism, Biculturalism, and Cable TV: HBO Latino and the Promise of the Multiplex -- 10. Gay Programming, Gay Publics: Public and Private Tensions in Lesbian and Gay Cable Channels -- 11. The Nickelodeon Brand: Buying and Selling the Audience -- Introduction -- 12. Cable Watching: HBO, The Sopranos, and Discourses of Distinction -- 13. Bank Tellers and Flag Wavers: Cable News in the United States -- 14. Dualcasting: Bravo’s Gay Programming and the Quest for Women Audiences -- 15. “I’m Rich, Bitch!!!”: The Comedy of Chappelle’s Show -- 16. Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment’s Global Reach: Latino Fans and Wrestlers -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790156803321 |
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Immigration and American popular culture [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick
| Immigration and American popular culture [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick |
| Autore | Rubin Rachel <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.8/73 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MelnickJeffrey Paul |
| Collana | Nation of newcomers |
| Soggetto topico |
Immigrants - Cultural assimilation
Popular culture - United States |
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American
Immigration between case century culture immigrants industry looks popular relationship series studies through twentieth |
| ISBN |
0-8147-7689-2
0-8147-6908-X 1-4356-0043-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Hollywood, 1930 : Jewish gangster masquerade -- Los Angeles, 1943 : zoot suit style, immigrant politics -- Broadway, 1957 : West Side Story and the Nuyorican blues -- Monterey, 1967 : the hippies meet Ravi Shankar -- South Bronx, 1977 : Jamaican migrants, born Jamericans, and global music -- Cyberspace, y2k : giant robots, Asian punks -- Afterword : Chelsea, 2006 ; wandering popular culture. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778129203321 |
Rubin Rachel <1964->
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They know us better than we know ourselves [[electronic resource] ] : the history and politics of alien abduction / / Bridget Brown
| They know us better than we know ourselves [[electronic resource] ] : the history and politics of alien abduction / / Bridget Brown |
| Autore | Brown Bridget, Ph. D. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina | 001.942 |
| Soggetto topico |
Alien abduction
Human-alien encounters |
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Better
Know Ourselves Than They abduction belief constituted discourse extraterrestrials film images looks popular provided television through |
| ISBN |
0-8147-3917-2
1-4356-0743-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Elusive Shreds of Memory -- 2. The Invisible Epidemic -- 3. Good Subjects -- 4. My Body Is Not My Own -- 5. An Ongoing and Systematic Breeding Experiment -- 6. They Have the Secrets -- 7. This Is Worse Than Friggin’ Aliens -- 8. Look and See What You Have Done -- 9. You Have a Sensitivity -- 10. Reality Gets Exploded -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778104703321 |
Brown Bridget, Ph. D.
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| New York, : New York University Press, c2007 | ||
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