In less than a century, the flickering blue-gray light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell u

Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The b

Richly researched and engaging, The Columbia History of American Television tracks the growth of TV into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social ca

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Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden