Bright Signals - A History of Color Television

Informationen zum Autor Susan Murray Klappentext Susan Murray is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom, and the coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. Zusammenfassung Susan Murray traces four decades of technological! cultural! and aesthetic debates about the possibility! use! and meaning of color television within the broader history of twentieth-century visual culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction  1 1. "And Now—Color": Early Color Systems  11 2. Natural Vision Versus "Tele-Vision": Defining and Standardizing Color  34 3. Color Adjustments: Experiments, Calibrations, and Color Training, 1950–1955  86 4. Colortown, USA: Expansion, Stabilization, and Promotion, 1955–1959  127 5. The Wonderful World of Color: Network Programming and the Spectacular Real, 1960–1965  176 6. At the End of the Rainbow: Global Expansion, the Space Race, and the Cold War  217 Conclusion  251 Notes  259 Bibliography  293 Index  303

Product details

• Authors: Susan Murray
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780822371304
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-7130-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission; Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet