Cable visions : television beyond broadcasting / edited by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, and Anthony Freitas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Banet-Weiser, Sarah, 1966-

Chris, Cynthia, 1961-

Freitas, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cable television--United States.

Cable television.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2007]

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 / François 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 beyond 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-Shumade

Monolingualism, biculturalism, and cable TV : HBO Latino and the promise of the multiplex / Katynka Z. Martínez

Gay programming, gay publics : public and private tensions in lesbian and gay cable channels / Anthony Freitas

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!!!" : the comedy of Chappelle's Show / Christine Acham

Worldwide wrestling entertainment's global reach : Latino fans and wrestlers / Ellen Seiter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814799499

0814799493

9780814799505

0814799507

OCLC:

85833332

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