Cool : how air conditioning changed everything / / Salvatore Basile
| Cool : how air conditioning changed everything / / Salvatore Basile |
| Autore | Basile Salvatore |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina | 697 |
| Soggetto topico | Air conditioning - Efficiency |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Alfred Wolff
American history Carrier John Gorrie New York City History Popular culture advertising history air conditioner air conditioning history air conditioning architecture climate change cooling man-made weather mechanical ventilation motion picture history radio history television history theater history |
| ISBN |
0-8232-6177-8
0-8232-7178-1 0-8232-6178-6 0-8232-6179-4 |
| Classificazione | ZI 8700 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ice, Air, and Crowd Poison -- 2. The Wondrous Comfort of Ammonia -- 3. For Paper, Not People -- 4. Coolth: Everybody’s Doing It -- 5. Big Ideas. Bold Concepts. Bad Timing. -- 6. From Home Front to Each Home -- 7. The Unnecessary, Unhealthy Luxury (That No One Would Give Up) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Cool : how air conditioning changed everything / / Salvatore Basile
| Cool : how air conditioning changed everything / / Salvatore Basile |
| Autore | Basile Salvatore |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina | 697 |
| Soggetto topico | Air conditioning - Efficiency |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Alfred Wolff
American history Carrier John Gorrie New York City History Popular culture advertising history air conditioner air conditioning history air conditioning architecture climate change cooling man-made weather mechanical ventilation motion picture history radio history television history theater history |
| ISBN |
0-8232-6177-8
0-8232-7178-1 0-8232-6178-6 0-8232-6179-4 |
| Classificazione | ZI 8700 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ice, Air, and Crowd Poison -- 2. The Wondrous Comfort of Ammonia -- 3. For Paper, Not People -- 4. Coolth: Everybody’s Doing It -- 5. Big Ideas. Bold Concepts. Bad Timing. -- 6. From Home Front to Each Home -- 7. The Unnecessary, Unhealthy Luxury (That No One Would Give Up) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807063203321 |
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| New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Media worlds [[electronic resource] ] : anthropology on new terrain / / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin
| Media worlds [[electronic resource] ] : anthropology on new terrain / / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2002] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 302.23 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GinsburgFaye D
Abu-LughodLila LarkinBrian |
| Soggetto topico | Mass media and culture |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
anthropology cross cultural cultural history cultural studies ethnographic ethnographics ethnography film history film studies global international media history media studies media multimedia pop culture social history social studies television history television theoretical transnational |
| ISBN |
1-59734-740-X
1-282-75901-9 9786612759017 0-520-92816-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media -- 2. Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex -- 3. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video -- 4. Spectacles of Difference -- 5. Egyptian Melodrama-Technology of the Modern Subject? -- 6. Epic Contests -- 7. The National Picture -- 8. Television, Time, and the National Imaginary in Belize -- 9. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai -- 10. A Marshall Plan of the Mind -- 11. Mapping Hmong Media in Diasporic Space -- 12. Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places -- 13. Culture in the Ad World -- 14. "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian" -- 15. Arrival Scenes -- 16. The Materiality of Cinema Theaters in Northern Nigeria -- 17. Mobile Machines and Fluid Audiences -- 18. The Indian Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- 19. Live or Dead? -- 20. A Room with a Voice -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783057303321 |
| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2002] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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NBC [[electronic resource] ] : America's network / / Michele Hilmes, editor ; Michael Henry, photo editor
| NBC [[electronic resource] ] : America's network / / Michele Hilmes, editor ; Michael Henry, photo editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384.55/06573 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HenryMichael (Michael Lowell)
HilmesMichele <1953-> |
| Soggetto topico | Television |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american culture
21st century american culture american broadcasting american cultural studies cbs commercial radio cultural history digital platforms entertainment industry fcc network inquiry friends historical history industry practice international consolidation media history media studies national broadcasting company nbc news documentary retrospective satire star trek technology television history television programming television united states of america |
| ISBN |
0-520-94060-1
1-281-38561-1 9786611385613 1-4356-8290-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Part One: Broadcasting Begins, 1919-38 -- 1. NBC and the Network Idea: Defining the "American System" -- 2. "Always in Friendly Competition": NBC and CBS in the First Decade of National Broadcasting -- 3. Programming in the Public Interest: America's Town Meeting of the Air -- 4. Regulating Class Conflict on the Air: NBC's Relationship with Business and Organized Labor -- Introduction to Part Two: Transitional Decades, 1938-60 -- 5. Breaking Chains: NBC and the FCC Network Inquiry, 1938-43 -- 6. Why Sarnoff Slept: NBC and the Holocaust -- 7. Employment and Blue Pencils: NBC, Race, and Representation, 1926-55 -- 8. NBC, J. Walter Thompson, and the Struggle for Control of Television Programming, 1946-58 -- 9. Talent Raids and Package Deals: NBC Loses Its Leadership in the 1950's -- Introduction to Part Three: NBC and the Classic Network System, 1960-85 -- 10. NBC News Documentary: "Intelligent Interpretation" in a Cold War Context -- 11. What Closes on Saturday Night: NBC and Satire -- 12. The Little Program That Could: The Relationship between NBC and Star Trek -- 13. Sex as a Weapon: Programming Sexuality in the 1970's -- 14. Saturday Morning Children's Programs on NBC, 1975-2006: A Case Study of Self-Regulation -- Introduction to Part Four: NBC in the Digital Age, 1985 to the Present -- 15. Must-See TV: NBC's Dominant Decades -- 16. Creating the Twenty-first-Century Television Network: NBC in the Age of Media Conglomerates -- 17. Life without Friends: NBC's Programming Strategies in an Age of Media Clutter, Media Conglomeration, and TiVo -- 18. Network Nation: Writing Broadcasting History as Cultural History -- NBC Time Line -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | National Broadcasting Company |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782562403321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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NBC : America's network / / Michele Hilmes, editor ; Michael Henry, photo editor
| NBC : America's network / / Michele Hilmes, editor ; Michael Henry, photo editor |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Disciplina | 384.55/06573 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HenryMichael (Michael Lowell)
HilmesMichele <1953-> |
| Soggetto topico | Television |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american culture
21st century american culture american broadcasting american cultural studies cbs commercial radio cultural history digital platforms entertainment industry fcc network inquiry friends historical history industry practice international consolidation media history media studies national broadcasting company nbc news documentary retrospective satire star trek technology television history television programming television united states of america |
| ISBN |
0-520-94060-1
1-281-38561-1 9786611385613 1-4356-8290-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Part One: Broadcasting Begins, 1919-38 -- 1. NBC and the Network Idea: Defining the "American System" -- 2. "Always in Friendly Competition": NBC and CBS in the First Decade of National Broadcasting -- 3. Programming in the Public Interest: America's Town Meeting of the Air -- 4. Regulating Class Conflict on the Air: NBC's Relationship with Business and Organized Labor -- Introduction to Part Two: Transitional Decades, 1938-60 -- 5. Breaking Chains: NBC and the FCC Network Inquiry, 1938-43 -- 6. Why Sarnoff Slept: NBC and the Holocaust -- 7. Employment and Blue Pencils: NBC, Race, and Representation, 1926-55 -- 8. NBC, J. Walter Thompson, and the Struggle for Control of Television Programming, 1946-58 -- 9. Talent Raids and Package Deals: NBC Loses Its Leadership in the 1950's -- Introduction to Part Three: NBC and the Classic Network System, 1960-85 -- 10. NBC News Documentary: "Intelligent Interpretation" in a Cold War Context -- 11. What Closes on Saturday Night: NBC and Satire -- 12. The Little Program That Could: The Relationship between NBC and Star Trek -- 13. Sex as a Weapon: Programming Sexuality in the 1970's -- 14. Saturday Morning Children's Programs on NBC, 1975-2006: A Case Study of Self-Regulation -- Introduction to Part Four: NBC in the Digital Age, 1985 to the Present -- 15. Must-See TV: NBC's Dominant Decades -- 16. Creating the Twenty-first-Century Television Network: NBC in the Age of Media Conglomerates -- 17. Life without Friends: NBC's Programming Strategies in an Age of Media Clutter, Media Conglomeration, and TiVo -- 18. Network Nation: Writing Broadcasting History as Cultural History -- NBC Time Line -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | National Broadcasting Company |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248204503316 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Netflix Nations : the geography of digital distribution
| Netflix Nations : the geography of digital distribution |
| Autore | Lobato Ramon |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : New York University Press, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (134 pages) |
| Disciplina | ELECTRONIC BOOK |
| Collana | Critical cultural communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Video-on-demand
Streaming video Television broadcasting International broadcasting |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Canada
China Europe India Japan MTV Netflix UNESCO audiences bandwidth broadcasting circumvention cloud storage consumption content delivery networks cosmopolitanism cultural imperialism cultural policy digital markets digital media studies digital rights management download speeds future of television geoblocking geolocation georestriction global markets global media global television globalization intellectual property internet studies internet television live streaming local content localization media ontology net neutrality new media theory one-way flow piracy platform studies satellite television science and technology studies streaming television audiences television history television studies television trade television transnational television virtual private network (VPN) |
| ISBN | 1479882283 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. What is Netflix? -- 2. Transnational television: from broadcast to broadband -- 3. The infrastructures of streaming -- 4. Making global markets -- 5. Content, catalogs, and cultural imperialism -- 6. The proxy wars -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996571856503316 |
Lobato Ramon
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| New York : , : New York University Press, , 2019 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Right here on our stage tonight! [[electronic resource] ] : Ed Sullivan's America / / Gerald Nachman
| Right here on our stage tonight! [[electronic resource] ] : Ed Sullivan's America / / Gerald Nachman |
| Autore | Nachman Gerald |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (491 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.45/75 |
| Soggetto topico | Television personalities - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american popular culture
african american music american popular culture american television broadway gossip columnist career dog acts ed sullivan elvis presley entertainment industry entertainment james brown jugglers music musicians nat king cole pearl bailey race in america retrospective richard pryor show business television history television the beatles the ed sullivan show tv variety show united states of america vaudeville |
| ISBN |
1-282-77265-1
9786612772658 0-520-94486-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Theme Music -- Part One. No-Talent Host Tames the One-Eyed Beast -- Part Two. How to Succeed in Show Business without Really Talking -- Part Three. Inside the Star- Making Machine -- Part Four. Rescued by Rock 'n' Roll -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792447603321 |
Nachman Gerald
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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TV antiquity : swords, sandals, blood and sand / / Sylvie Magerstädt
| TV antiquity : swords, sandals, blood and sand / / Sylvie Magerstädt |
| Autore | Magerstädt Sylvie <1976-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 791.45658 |
| Collana | The television series |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical television programs - History and criticism
Civilization, Ancient, on television Television Studies Television PERFORMING ARTS - Television - History & Criticism Ancient Greece |
| Soggetto non controllato |
narrative complexity
serial television sword and sandal television antiquity television history |
| ISBN |
1-5261-0006-1
1-5261-0007-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | part I. The ancient world as serial television drama -- part II. Pepla and politics : the emergence of a television genre (1960s) -- Case study 1 The Caesars (1968) -- Case study 2 Odissea/The Odyssey (1968) -- part III. Costumes and censorship : the BBC's Roman Empire (1970s) -- Case study 3 I, Claudius (1976) -- Case study 4 The Eagle of the Ninth (1977) -- part IV. Cult and kitsch : Graeco-Roman myths on US television (1980s-90s) -- Case study 5 The Last Days of Pompeii (1984) -- Case study 6 Hercules : the legendary journeys (1995-99) -- part V. Expanse and spectacle : the postmillennial revival of a genre -- Case study 7 Rome (2005-8) -- Case study 8 STARZ Spartacus (2010-13) -- Conclusion : what is the future of TV antiquity? |
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Magerstädt Sylvie <1976-, >
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| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018] | ||
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TV antiquity : swords, sandals, blood and sand / / Sylvie Magerstädt
| TV antiquity : swords, sandals, blood and sand / / Sylvie Magerstädt |
| Autore | Magerstädt Sylvie <1976-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 791.45658 |
| Collana | The television series |
| Soggetto topico |
Historical television programs - History and criticism
Civilization, Ancient, on television Television Studies Television PERFORMING ARTS - Television - History & Criticism Ancient Greece |
| Soggetto non controllato |
narrative complexity
serial television sword and sandal television antiquity television history |
| ISBN |
1-5261-0006-1
1-5261-0007-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | part I. The ancient world as serial television drama -- part II. Pepla and politics : the emergence of a television genre (1960s) -- Case study 1 The Caesars (1968) -- Case study 2 Odissea/The Odyssey (1968) -- part III. Costumes and censorship : the BBC's Roman Empire (1970s) -- Case study 3 I, Claudius (1976) -- Case study 4 The Eagle of the Ninth (1977) -- part IV. Cult and kitsch : Graeco-Roman myths on US television (1980s-90s) -- Case study 5 The Last Days of Pompeii (1984) -- Case study 6 Hercules : the legendary journeys (1995-99) -- part V. Expanse and spectacle : the postmillennial revival of a genre -- Case study 7 Rome (2005-8) -- Case study 8 STARZ Spartacus (2010-13) -- Conclusion : what is the future of TV antiquity? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823095803321 |
Magerstädt Sylvie <1976-, >
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| Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018] | ||
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