NBC: America's Network Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

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Spanning eight decades from the beginnings of commercial radio to the current era of international consolidation and emerging digital platforms, this pioneering volume illuminates the entire course of American broadcasting by offering the first comprehensive history of a major network. Bringing together wide-ranging original articles by leading scholars and industry insiders, it 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. Programs, policy, industry practices and personnel, politics, audiences, marketing, and global influence all come into play. The story the book tells is not just about broadcasting but about a nation's attempt to construct itself as a culture--with all the underlying concerns, divisions, opportunities, and pleasures. Based on unprecedented research in the extensive NBC archives, NBC: America's Network includes a timeline of NBC's and broadcasting's development, making it a valuable resource for students and scholars as well as for anyone interested the history of media in the United States.

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"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

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Title NBC: America's Network
Author Michele Hilmes (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 374
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of California Press
Date 2007-08-01
ISBN 9780520250819 / 0520250818
Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
Dimensions 8.92 x 6.12 x 0.9 in (22.66 x 15.54 x 2.29 cm)
Library of Congress subjects National Broadcasting Company, inc
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006027331
Dewey Decimal Code 384.550

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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.

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. xii, 362 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: 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,… Read More