The Columbia History of American Television

Gary Edgerton

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Paper, 512 pages, 75 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12165-1
$27.50 / £19.00

October, 2007
Cloth, 512 pages, 75 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12164-4
$50.00 / £34.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Going Public

1. An Idea Whose Time had Come: Imagining Television - Before 1940

2. Not Going According to Plan: Remodeling the Tube in a Time of Crisis - 1940-1947

3. Learning to Live with Television: Technology, Gender, and America’s Early TV Audiences

Part II. Becoming National

4. Here comes Television: Remaking American Life - 1948-1954

5. The Halcyon Years: Beyond Anyone’s Wildest Dream - 1955-1963

6. Television and the Presidency: Eisenhower and Kennedy

Part III. Becoming International

7. A Great Awakening: Prime Time for Network Television - 1964-1975

8. The Sky’s the Limit: Satellites, Cable, and the Reinvention of Television - 1976-1991

9. The Changing Face of Television: Turner Broadcasting System

Part IV. Becoming Global

10. The Business of America is Show Business: U.S. TV in Global Context - 1992-Present

11. The Greatest SHow on Earth: The Cosby Show and the Ascent of U.S. Sitcoms in the Global Television Marketplace

12. Tune in Locally, Watch Globally: The Future of Television in the Age of the Internet

Notes

General Index

Television Programming Index

Related Subjects

• Media Studies
• Popular Culture
• Reference
• Television Studies

Series

• Columbia Histories of Modern American Life

About the Author

Gary R. Edgerton is professor and chair of the communication and theater arts department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He has published eight books and more than seventy book chapters and journal articles on a wide assortment of television and media history topics, and is coeditor of the Journal of Popular Film and Television. In 2004 he received the American Culture Association Governing Board Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Cultural Studies.

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