McCarthy Ambient Television

Visual Culture and Public Space
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8313-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Console-ing Passions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCarthy, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Public Lives of TV 1

Part I. Histories and Institutions

Rhetorics of TV Spectatorships Outside the Home 27

1. TV, Class, and Social Control in the 1940s Neighborhood Tavern 29

2. Gendered Fantasies of TV Shopping in the Postwar Department Store 63

3. Out-of-Home Networks in the 1990s 89

Part II. Places and Practices

Reading TV Installations in Daily Life 115

4. Shaping Public and Private Space with TV Screens 117

5. Television and Consumption at the Point of Purchase 155

6. Television While You Wait 195

7. Terminal Thoughts on Art, Activism, and Video for Public Places 225

Notes 253

Works Cited 287

Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Anna McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.