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Ambient television : visual culture and public space / Anna McCarthy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarthy, Anna, 1967-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Console-ing passions.
- Console-ing passions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects.
- Television broadcasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium and how that differs from the normal assumptions of domestic viewing space.
- Contents:
- TV, class, and social control in the 1940s neighborhood tavern
- Gendered fantasies of TV shopping in the postwar department store
- Out-of-home networks in the 1990s
- Shaping public and private space with TV screens
- Television at the point of purchase
- Television while you wait
- Terminal thoughts on art, activism, and video for public places.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612919992
- 9780822383130
- 0822383136
- 9781282919990
- 1282919997
- OCLC:
- 850215081
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