The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television by Evan I. Schwartz, ISBN 0060935596
In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius versus greed, innocence versus deceit, and independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance. Many men have laid claim to the title "father of television," but Philo T. Farnsworth is the true genius behind what may be the most influential invention of our time.
Driven by his obsession to demonstrate his idea, by the age of twenty Farnsworth was operating his own laboratory above a garage in San Francisco and filing for patents. The resulting publicity caught the attention of RCA tycoon David Sarnoff, who became determined to control television in the same way he monopolized radio.
Based on original research, including interviews with Farnsworth family members, "The Last Lone Inventor is the story of the epic struggle between two equally passionate adversaries whose clash symbolized a turning point in the culture of creativity.
The Broadcast Television Industry by James R. Walker, ISBN 0205189504
Explore the current practices and impact of the U.S. broadcast television industry. A look at the particular strengths and weaknesses of broadcast TV written during the new age of television, these pages cover cable, home video, and digital satellite systems as competing distribution systems.
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Tvtherapy: The Television Guide to Life
From the co-author of the Cinematherapy series comes a television guide that understands that TV is more than entertainment--it's remote control therapy.
Tvtherapy: The Television Guide to Life
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A Companion to Television Studies
A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of original essays that chart the history of television from its inception to the present day. Over thirty leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences look at television scholarship as it responded to technological, institutional, and aesthetic changes around the world. The essays cover a myriad of topics and theories that have led to televisionrsquo; s current incarnation, and predict its likely future. From technology and aesthetics, televisionrsquo; s relationship to the state, televisual commerce, texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects, A Companion to Television is an invaluable reference for understanding the significance of television in the modern and postmodern world.
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News of the World: World Cultures Look at Television News by Klaus Bruhn Jensen, ISBN 041516107X
This collection is the first in-depth study of how television viewers around the world respond to the ever increasing mass of information available from news programs. "News of the World" describes and interprets the type of news available, the amount of news that viewers consume, and how it is understood in the context of everyday life in the United States, India, Mexico, Italy, Denmark, Israel and Belarus.
News of the World: World Cultures Look at Television News by Klaus Bruhn Jensen, ISBN 041516107X
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