Full title: Only connect : a cultural history of broadcasting in the United States / Michele Hilmes.

Author/creator: Hilmes, Michele, 1953-.

Date: 2013..

Call Numbers: G 2013/4700

Record Identifier: 74VK6EX8oxeX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xviii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., , , , Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Making History -- The Power of History -- It Flows Two Ways -- Connection: Seeing Through The Fifties -- History = The Past + Historiography -- Historical Erasures -- History and Nation -- Borders and Identities -- Connection: The Strange Case Of Dr. Brinkley -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 2 Before Broadcasting -- Social Context: The Progressive Era -- Immigration and Nativism -- Progressive Intervention, Popular Resistance -- The War to End All Wars -- The Rise of Popular Media -- The Press and Magazines -- Advertising Agencies -- Music, Vaudeville, and Film -- Sports and Spectacle -- Progression and Repression -- The Invention of Mass Culture -- High and Low in the Culture Wars -- Connection: The Scandal Of Jazz -- From Radiotelegraphy to the Wireless -- Connection: Radio Hackers: Hugo Gernsback And Hiram Percy Maxim -- Conclusion -- Review --, Contents note continued: Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 3 Broadcasting Begins, 1919 to 1926 -- Social Context: The Jazz Age -- Restrictions and Backlash -- African-American Resistance -- What Did Women Want? -- Popular Entertainments -- Who Are These Americans? -- Radio Activity -- RCA: The Radio Corporation of America -- Early Regulation -- Breakout Box 3.1 Who Owned America's Earliest Radio Stations? -- Defining "Quality" -- Breakout Box 3.2 Parody Of Early Radio Programming -- Radio Conferences -- Principles and Precedents -- Early Broadcasters -- Connection: Bertha Brainard And NBC -- The Network Idea -- Connection: "Eveready Red" Wendell Hall -- Other Important Early Stations and Programs -- Social Discourse -- Utopian Hopes, Dystopian Fears -- Public Service versus Commercialism -- Public Interest -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration --, Contents note continued: ch. 4 The Network Age, 1926 to 1940 -- Social Context: Depression and a New Deal -- Depression -- A New Deal -- Regulation: The Progressive Compromise, 1927-1934 -- The Radio Act of 1927 and General Order 40 -- Breakout Box 4.1 General Public Interest Vs. Propaganda Stations -- The Communications Act of 1934 -- The Romance Hits a Few Bumps -- Industry: Networks Triumphant -- Connection: CBS: "We Try Harder" -- Breakout Box 4.2 The Paley Plan -- The American System -- The Sponsor's Medium -- Connection: J. Walter Thompson, Radio Showmen To The World -- Radio Practices -- Network Woes -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 5 Radio for Everyone, 1926 to 1940 -- The Media Milieu -- Radio Still Goes Hollywood -- The Afterlife of Vaudeville -- The Swing Decades -- The Press-Radio Wars and the Birth of Broadcast News -- Magazine Chat and Women's Programs --, Contents note continued: Programming: Popular Radio -- Radio Representations -- Radio Forms and Aesthetics -- Breakout Box 5.1 Forms Of Broadcast Narrative -- Connection: Comedy Variety: Jack Benny And His Radio Family -- Dramatic Anthologies and Features -- Connection: Avant-Garde Radio: The Columbia Workshop And Norman Corwin -- Comedy Series -- Thriller Dramas -- Quiz Shows -- Sports -- Religious Programming -- Educational and Public Affairs Programming -- Daytime. Radio -- Soaps: Serial Drama for Women -- Breakout Box 5.2 Daytime Soaps On The Air, 1939-40 -- Connection: All Irna's Children -- Daytime Talk -- Critiques of Mass Culture -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 6 War at Home and Abroad, 1940 to 1945 -- Social Context: The Winds of War Blow Change -- Embattled Isolationism -- Who We Are, Why We Fight -- The Military-Industrial Complex -- Social Discourse: Thinking About Radio --, Contents note continued: Industry Conceptions of the Audience -- Breakout Box 6.1 Broadcast Ratings Systems -- The Rise of U.S. Communications Research -- Connection: Father Coughlin And The Masses -- Radio Goes to War -- Connection: American Identity And The Radio Feature -- Government-Industry Cooperation -- Breakout Box 6.2 The Office Of War Information -- Connection: The Public Woman: The Story Of Mary Marlin -- Pitching America Overseas -- The Rise of Network News -- Regulation: Up and Down with the FCC -- ABC Enters the Scene -- Spectrum Struggles -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 7 At Last Television, 1945 to 1955 -- Social Context: Returning to Normalcy -- Labor Unrest and the Rise of Corporate Liberalism -- The Cold War at Home -- The Race Issue Redux -- Media Context: Transitioning to Prosperity -- A New Deal at the Movies -- The Print Media -- Books --, Contents note continued: Advertising and Public Relations -- Radio -- Connection: DJS, Black Radio, And The Rise Of Rock Ǹ' Roll -- Regulation: Television's Golden Age -- The Blue Book -- The Big Chill -- Breakout Box 7.1 VHF Vs. UHF: Intermixture And Deintermixture -- Programming: The .Politics and Poetics of Live TV -- Breakout Box 7.2 Local Stations' Sources Of Programming In The 1950s -- Avant-Garde TV: The Live Anthology Drama Goes Visual -- Breakout Box 7.3 Anthology Dramas On The Air, 1953 And 1958 -- Variety Shows -- The Rise of Filmed Series -- Connection: The Birth Of The Sitcom -- News -- Sports -- Daytime -- Syndication -- Connection: Cold War TV: I LED 3 Lives -- Social Discourse: Mass Anxieties -- "TV Is Bad for Kids," Phase I -- "TV Needs to Control Itself" -- "Commercial TV Is Free TV" -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 8 The Domesticated Medium, 1955 to 1965 --, Contents note continued: Social Context: The Way We Weren't -- The Civil Rights Movement -- "Women: Neglected Assets" -- The Trouble with Teens -- Media Context: Living with TV -- Radio Readjusts -- Connection: Payola And The.Rise Of Format Radio -- Industry: The Classic Network System Emerges -- Network Finesse -- The Classic Network System -- Breakout Box 8.1 The Classic Network System: Adjustments -- TV Reforms -- Regulation: Corruption, Crackdown, and Complacency -- The "Whorehouse Era" -- Minow the Intimidator -- TV and Violence, Phase II -- Slouching toward Public TV -- Programming for Prosperity: American TV -- Hollywood TV -- Sitcoms -- Drama -- Breakout Box 8.2 Top Rated Rograms, 1955 And 1965 -- Crime! Adventure! Suspense! -- Connection: "Just The Facts, Please, Ma'am" -- Music and Variety Shows -- Quiz and Game Shows -- Sports -- Talk -- Soaps and Serials -- Saturday Morning World -- News and Documentary -- Connection: The Whole World Is Watching -- Social Discourse --, Contents note continued: The Measured Audience -- Critical Mass -- Is TV Art? -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 9 The Classic Network System, 1965 to 1975 -- Social Context: Something's Happening Here -- Race: Again, with a Vengeance -- "One, Two, Three, Four, We Don't want Youring War!" -- Peace, Love, and All That -- Deep Social Change -- Second-Wave Feminism -- Gay Liberation -- American Indian Movement -- The Revolution in Media -- The Underground Press -- Radio -- Movies -- Advertising -- Industry: The Classic Network System and Its Discontents -- Breakout Box 9.1 Types Of Stations, 1960-1980 -- Agents of Change -- Cable -- The Rise of the Independent Stations -- Connection: At Last, Public Television -- Regulation: Breaking the Bottleneck -- Fin/Syn and PTAR -- Breakout Box 9.2 Fin/Syn And Ptar -- Untying Cable -- Fairness Doctrine -- Citizen Action --, Contents note continued: Connection: Sorry, We Are Experiencing Racial Difficulties -- Programming: The Age of Relevance -- Connection: Generational Politics And The American Tv Family -- Breakout Box 9.3 Top-Rated Shows, 1965 And 1975 -- News and Documentary -- Sports -- Social Discourse -- Violence Redux -- Citizen Activism -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 10 Rising Discontent, 1975 to 1985 -- Social Context: Crisis of Confidence -- The Satellite Revolution -- Media Changes -- McPaper -- Movies -- Radio -- Deregulation, Breakup, and Merger -- Connection: Mark Fowler's Toaster -- Breakout Box 1O.1 Fowler's Rules -- Industry Explosion -- The Multichannel Era: 57 Channels and Nothing On? -- Pay Cable -- Basic Cable -- Breakout Box 10.2 Types Of Cable Channels -- Superstations -- Nichification -- Public Service, Public Access -- Public Television -- First Wave Conglomeration and Consolidation --, Contents note continued: Expanding Programs -- Connection: The Culture Of Seriality And Repetition -- The New Dramas -- Connection: The Many Qualities Of Fred Silverman -- Daytime -- Nighttime News -- Sports -- Late Night -- Social Discourse -- The Stats of NIMH -- The Birth of Media Studies -- A New Era of Reform -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. l1 The Big Change, 1985 to 1995 -- Social Context: Extremes and Contradictions -- Domestic Distress -- International Imbroglios -- Incendiary Mix -- Globalization -- The Deregulated Decade -- Fairness Doctrine -- Bye-Bye Fin/Syn-and PTAR -- What Next? -- Media Context: The Age of Synergy -- Breakout Box 11.1 Media Merger Timeline 1986-1995 -- Video -- Print -- Audio: Wild Talk -- Advertising -- Global Markets -- Industry: Nothing Succeeds Like Excess -- Breakout Box 11.2 What Led To The New Networks? -- Upstarts: Fox, UPN, WB --, Contents note continued: Jurassic Park? The Big Three Survive -- Cable -- Connection: Espn = Entertainment And Sports Empire -- Breakout Box 11. 3 Channels Owned By The Three Largest MSOs -- Programming: Pushing the Envelope -- The New Auteurs -- Dramedy -- Family Shows in the New Era -- Connection: The Postmodern Family: Cosbys, Conners, And Simpsons -- Trash TV -- Connection: The Return Of Unruly Women -- Breakout Box 11.4 Daytime Talk Shows Of The 1980s And 90s -- TV and Changing Culture Around the World -- Connection: Cable Tv And Satellites: The Local And The Global -- Social Discourse: The Net Effect -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 12 Entering the Digital Era, 1995-2005 -- Social Context: Falling Down -- Invasions -- The New World Order -- The Framework for Digital Convergence -- Basics -- Early Days -- Web 1.0 -- Breakout Box 12.1 Governing The Internet -- Convergence --, Contents note continued: Regulation: Dealing with Convergence -- The Telecommunications Act of 1996 -- Intellectual Property in the Digital Age -- Breakout Box 12.2 Copyright Term In The New Millennium -- Regulating Global Convergence -- Industry: Mergers and Remediations -- Breakout Box 12.3 Media Mergers 1996-2005 -- Converging Pressures on Network TV -- Public Broadcasting -- Cable-Not Just Television Anymore -- Hollywood in the Digital Era -- Breakout Box 12.4 Top-Rated Cable Channels And Owners -- Radio -- Satellite TV and Radio -- Music -- Global Satellite Broadcasting -- Connection: The Rise Of Al-Jazeera -- From Programs to Content: Convergence Tv -- Blurring Boundaries -- Connection: The Triumph Of Reality Tv -- Transmedia and Hyperdiegesis -- Expanded Audiences, Expanded Worlds -- Mas Television Latina -- Connection: Univision And Telemundo -- Agitating for Inclusion -- Out onto Prime Time -- It's Not TV... -- Connection: Single Women And "Family" Men --, Contents note continued: Global Culture in a Digital Era -- Connection: India Between Global And Local -- Social Discourse: Rethinking Mass Culture -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 13 Baby, It's You: Web 2.0, 2005-Present -- Audiences: You've Changed! -- Connection: Facebook: It's All You -- Produsage and Aggregation -- Panopticons and Privacy -- Industry-Digital Makeover -- Game Changers: New Media Powers -- Apple -- Google -- Amazon -- Changing Channels: "Old" Media Learn New Tricks -- Sibling Rivalry -- Digital Distribution -- Connection: Youtube-You Again -- Hulu and Netflix -- The Gaming Industry -- Radio and the Music Industry -- Connection: Pandora: A Radio Station Of Your Own -- Programs: The New Reality of Tv -- Oh, Really? -- The Long Way Home -- Global Format Fiction -- Connection: The Beauty Of Ugly Betty -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion --, Contents note continued: Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration -- ch. 14 Conclusion: TV After TV -- Democracy and Technology -- The Outlook -- Net Neutrality -- Piracy -- Breakout Box 14.1 Digital Rights Advocacy Organizations -- Conclusion -- Review -- Questions for Review and Discussion -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Further Exploration.

Publishers: Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013.

Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: pages 479-484.

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