| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
The moms 'n' pops of CATV / Megan Mullen -- A taste of class : pay-TV and the commodification of television in Postwar America / John McMurria -- Cable's digital future / Francois Bar and Jonathan Taplin -- If it's not TV, what is it? the case of U.S. subscription television / Amanda D. Lotz -- Where the cable ends : television in fringe areas / Lisa Parks -- Discovery's Wild Discovery : the growth and globalization of TV's animal genres / Cynthia Chris -- Tunnel vision and food : a political-economic analysis of Food Network / Cheri Ketchum -- Target market black : BET and the branding of African-America / Beretta E. Smith-Shomade -- Monolingualism, biculturalism, and cable TV : HBO Latino and the promise of the multiplex / Katynka Z. Martinez -- Gay programming, gay publics : public and private tensions in lesbian and gay cable channels / Anthony Freitas -- 11. The Nickelodeon brand : buying and selling the audience / Sarah Banet-Weiser -- Cable watching : HBO, The Sopranos, and discourses of distinction / Dana Polan -- Bank tellers and flag wavers : cable news in the United States / Toby Miller -- Dualcasting : Bravo's gay programming and the quest for women audiences / Katherine Sender -- I'm rich, bitch!!! comedy of Chappelle's show / Christine Acham -- The WWE's global reach : Latino fans and wrestlers / Ellen Seiter |
| Summary |
"Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24-hour news, 24-hour weather, movie channels, children's channels, home shopping, and channels targeting groups based on demographic characteristics or interests were introduced. Cable Visions looks beyond broadcasting's mainstream, toward cable's alternatives, to critically consider the capacity of commercial media to serve the public interest. It offers an overview of the industry's history and regulatory trends, case studies of key cable newcomers aimed at niche markets (including Nickelodeon, BET, and HBO Latino), and analyses of programming forms introduced by cable TV (such as nature, cooking, sports, and history channels)."--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cable television -- United States
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism.
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Cable television.
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Kabelfernsehen
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United States.
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Banet-Weiser, Sarah, 1966- editor.
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Chris, Cynthia, editor.
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Freitas, Anthony, editor.
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| LC no. |
2007009176 |
| ISBN |
9780814739242 |
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0814739245 |
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