Cultures in Orbit - Satellites and the Televisual

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Parks is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a coeditor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader. Klappentext Argues that satellites are not a transparent form of distribution of information, but rather that they produce specific media practices and modes of production. Zusammenfassung Argues that satellites are not a transparent form of distribution of information! but rather that they produce specific media practices and modes of production. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Satellite Spectacular: Our World and the Fantasy of Global Presence 21 2. Satellite Footprints: Imparja TV and Postcolonial Flaws in Australia 47 3. Satellite Witnessing: Views and Coverage of the War in Bosnia 77 4. Satellite Archaeology: Remote Sensing Cleopatra in Egypt 109 5. Satellite Panoramas: Astronomical Observation and Remote Control 139 Conclusion 167 Notes 185 Bibliography 213 Index 233

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lisa Annparks, Parks, Lisa Parks, Lisa Ann Parks
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 20.04.2005
• EAN: 9780822334613
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3461-3
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Medien, Kommunikation > Allgemeines, Lexika