Ambient Television by Anna Mccarthy
Examines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium. The author explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home.
“Ambient Television offers a long overdue consideration of television spectatorship through a study of television's strategic positioning in a variety of public environments outside the homeAnna McCarthy's superb historical research has unearthed much fascinating material which will be of interest to artists and media critics. Anyone wishing to understand more fully our ever expanding media culture will benefit from McCarthy's astute analysis and historical insights into television's complex place in the public sphere.”—John Hanhardt, Guggenheim Museum
“An entirely original book, Ambient Television is brilliantly conceived, researched, and argued. Scholars in material culture, media history, and television studies are likely to recognize this virtuoso treatment of TV outside the home as an instant classic.”—Andrew Ross
“An unusually rich, ambitious, and engaging work. McCarthy has produced a significant piece of scholarship that will have wide impact upon the way television is taken up in the academy and elsewhere.”—William Boddy, Baruch College
“An entirely original book, Ambient Television is brilliantly conceived, researched, and argued. Scholars in material culture, media history, and television studies are likely to recognize this virtuoso treatment of TV outside the home as an instant classic.”—Andrew Ross
“An unusually rich, ambitious, and engaging work. McCarthy has produced a significant piece of scholarship that will have wide impact upon the way television is taken up in the academy and elsewhere.”—William Boddy, Baruch College
Anna McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822326922 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822326922 |
| Title | Ambient Television |
| Author | Anna Mccarthy |
| Series | Console-Ing Passions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2001-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
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