Ambient Television - Visual Culture and Public Space

"An unusually rich, ambitious, and engaging work. McCarthy has produced a significant piece of scholarship that will have wide impact upon the way television is taken up in the academy and elsewhere."--William Boddy, Baruch College

List of contents

Introduction: The Public Lives of TV 1

Part I. Histories and Institutions

Rhetorics of TV Spectatorships Outside the Home 27

1. TV, Class, and Social Control in the 1940s Neighborhood Tavern 29

2. Gendered Fantasies of TV Shopping in the Postwar Department Store 63

3. Out-of-Home Networks in the 1990s 89

Part II. Places and Practices

Reading TV Installations in Daily Life 115

4. Shaping Public and Private Space with TV Screens 117

5. Television and Consumption at the Point of Purchase 155

6. Television While You Wait 195

7. Terminal Thoughts on Art, Activism, and Video for Public Places 225

Notes 253

Works Cited 287

Index 305

About the author

Anna McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Summary

Examines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium. This book explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home.

Product details

• Authors: Anna McCarthy, Mccarthy, Anna McCarthy
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2001
• EAN: 9780822326830
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2683-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Weight: 671 g
• Illustrations: 32 b&w photographs, 15 figures
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Amerika, Film, Kino, Medienwissenschaften, Fernsehen, TV, Regionalstudien