Table of Contents

Volume I Toby Miller Introduction History Part 1 Early Television 1. Samuel Brody Television: A New Weapon for the New Imperialist War The Daily Worker [June 14, 1930] 2. Jonathan Sterne Television Under Construction: American Television and the Problem of Distribution, 1926-62 Media Culture & Society, 21, 4, pp. 503-30 [1999] 3. Anna McCarthy 'Like an Earthquake': Theater Television, Boxing, and the Black Public Sphere Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16, 3-4, pp. 307-23 [1999] 4. William Boddy The Amateur, the Housewife, and the Salesroom Floor: Promoting Postwar US Television International Journal of Cultural Studies 1, 1, pp. 129-42 [1998] 5. Inger L. Stole There Is No Place Like Home: NBC's Search for a Daytime Audience, 1954-1957 Communication Review 2, 2, pp. 135-61 [1997] 6. Des Freedman How Her Majesty's Opposition Grew to Like Commercial Television: The Labour Party and the Origins of ITV Media History 5, 1, pp. 19-32 [1999] 7. Liesbet van Zoonen and Jan Wieten 'It Wasn't Exactly a Miracle': The Arrival of Television in Dutch Family Life Media Culture & Society 16, 4, pp. 641-59 [1994] Part 2 The Mature System in the US and Western Europe 8. Michael Curtin Connections and Differences: The Spatial Dimension of Television History Film and History 30, 1, pp. 51-61 [2000] 9. Manuel Alvarado Selling Television, in Albert Moran, ed. Film Policy pp. 62-71 [London: Routledge, 1996] 10. America Rodriguez Creating an Audience and Remapping a Nation: A Brief History of US Spanish Language Broadcasting 1930-1980 Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16, 3-4, pp. 357-74 [1999] 11. Carmelo Garitaonandia Regional Television in Europe European Journal of Communication 8, 3, pp. 277-94 [1993] 12. Alison Harcourt The European Commission and the Regulation of the Media Industry Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 16, pp. 425-49 [1998] 13. Charlotte Brunsdon, Catherine Johnson, Rachel Moseley and Helen Wheatley Factual Entertainment on British Television: The Midlands TV Research Group's '8-9 Project' European Journal of Cultural Studies 4, 1, pp. 29-62 [2001] 14. Paolo Carpignano, Robin Andersen, Stanley Aronowitz and William Difazio Chatter in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: Talk Television and the 'Public Mind' Social Text 8, 3-9, 1, pp. 33-55 [1990] Part 3 Spread Across the World 15. S. G. Lapin Television Broadcasting Great Soviet Encyclopedia 3rd ed. Vol. 25, pp. 484-86 [New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1980] 16. Arvind Rajagopal Mediating Modernity: Theorizing Reception in a Non-Western Society Communication Review 1, 4, pp. 441-69 [1996] 17. Steven Barraclough/