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Informationen zum Autor Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts and Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States and The Television History Book! among other books. Klappentext " NBC: America's Network makes a significant contribution to our understanding of American broadcasting. Hilmes makes a convincing case for the appropriateness of an examination of a single firm! NBC! to illuminate the major themes and events of American broadcast history. In addition! she adeptly synthesizes a strong set of individually-authored chapters on specific historical periods! controversies! and program genres into a coherent whole. The writing is concise and lively and the breadth and depth of the material makes this a exceptional work."-William Boddy! author of New Media and Popular Imagination " NBC: America's Network is an outstanding book about one network across US television history. Hilmes is an excellent editor who brings broad insights about the television industry to bear on this volume. The individual essays present different approaches and methods! and together provide an integrated history of NBC with analysis that respects the medium and the people that worked in it."-Mary Beth Haralovich! co-editor of Television! History! and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays. "Filled with highly readable essays by the top scholars in the field! NBC: America's Network explores key! often watershed moments in the network's history to illuminate the central role broadcasting has played in constituting public discourse about what is-and what is not-in the public interest. A welcome addition to the history of broadcasting! and essential reading for anyone interested in the transformative role of radio and TV in modern life."-Susan J. Douglas! author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination Zusammenfassung Illuminating the course of American broadcasting, this work offers a comprehensive view of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) that brings into focus the development of this key American institution and the ways that it has intersected with, and influenced, the central events of our times. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE: BROADCASTING BEGINS! 1919-38 Introduction to Part One Michele Hilmes 1. NBC and the Network Idea: Defining the "American System" Michele Hilmes 2. "Always in Friendly Competition": NBC and CBS in the First Decade of National Broadcasting Michael J. Socolow 3. Programming in the Public Interest: America's Town Meeting of the Air David Goodman 4. Regulating Class Conflict on the Air: NBC's Relationship with Business and Organized Labor Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Nathan Godfried PART TWO: TRANSITIONAL DECADES! 1938-60 Introduction to Part Two Michele Hilmes 5. Breaking Chains: NBC and the FCC Network Inquiry! 1938-43 Christopher H. Sterling 6. Why Sarnoff Slept: NBC and the Holocaust David Weinstein 7. Employment and Blue Pencils: NBC! Race! and Representation! 1926-55 Murray Forman 8. NBC! J. Walter Thompson! and the Struggle for Control of Television Programming! 1946-58 Mike Mashon 9. Talent Raids and Package Deals: NBC Loses Its Leadership in the 1950s Douglas Gomery PART THREE: NBC AND THE CLASSIC NETWORK SYSTEM! 1960-85 Introduction to Part Three Michele Hilmes 10. NBC News Documentary: "Intelligent Interpretation" in a Cold War Context Michael Curtin 11. What Closes on Saturday Night: NBC and Satire Jeffrey S. Miller 12....
