Local TV : histories, communities, and aesthetics / edited by Lauren Herold and Annie Laurie Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herold, Lauren, 1990- editor.

Sullivan, Annie Laurie, 1986- editor.

Series:

Peabody series in media history

The Peabody series in media history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public-access television--United States--History.

Public-access television.

Local mass media--United States--History.

Local mass media.

Public television--United States--History.

Public television.

Television stations--United States--History.

Television stations.

Physical Description:

x, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Local Television: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics offers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in local television histories from the United States. Television is typically perceived as a commercial and/or national form of communication with the potential to reach millions of viewers. Yet, from the earliest years of television through the present, communities have participated in the production of television, creating media relevant to their needs and concerns. This collection broadens our notion of what this medium can achieve, allowing for innovative representation and community use that disrupts the political, economic, national, and social norms of mainstream offerings. Rather than a comprehensive historical survey--which given the sheer number of local television productions would be impossible--we've curated methodologically distinctive chapters that assess the possibilities and limitations of television's mission to serve local publics. In doing so, we are attentive to the idiosyncratic histories, technologies, and functions of local television that have emerged in different cities over the course of the 20th and 21st Century. We likewise amplify the use of television by marginalized groups--whose perspectives are too often sidelined or distorted in mainstream fare--as a site for community formation, cultural expression, civic engagement, and political action"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Local television studies, past and present / Annie Laurie Sullivan and Lauren Herold

Placing local media : the Chicago School of Television, revisited / Shawn VanCour

Local and national, public and private : WOI-TV and early educational television in the United States / Dyfrig Jones

"Vocal voyeurs": local television meets national syndication in Norman Lear's The Baxters / Taylor Cole Miller

Video as local television : "Becoming cable" at the Long Beach Museum of Art / Ana Howe Bukowski

"To call it a zoo would be unkind to animals" : how cable television came to Miami / Daniel Marcus

Broadcasting faith in Detroit : local televangelism, Black Gospel traditions, and the commerce of community worship / Annie Laurie Sullivan

Learning the basic issues of man : midcentury humanism, social science, and educational television / Jonathan MacDonald

WSB-TV, Atlanta : broadcasting the new Old South / Caroline N. Bayne

Busting Beethoven : Nam June Paik's electronic operas at WGBH / Evelyn Kreutzer

Creative beyond their years : the unique alchemy of Beyond our control / Christine Becker

Placemaking and community access media in Vermont : histories, archives, and activism / Helen Morgan Parmett

Minority media for the majority : the survival strategies of the Milwaukee Gay/Lesbian Cable Network (1986-1994) / Daphne Gershon

The first wave of Latina/o TV : early Chicana/o and Puerto Rican programming / Mary Beltrán

Chicago renaissance redux : Black cultural production and the social practice art of television / Aymar Jean Christian

Telling our stories : a reflection on realizing the promise of public access TV in Philadelphia / Antoine Haywood

Epilogue. Moving local television forward in the digital era / Lori Kido Lopez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820374727

0820374725

9780820374758

082037475X

OCLC:

1511527921