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Ambient Television : Visual Culture and Public Space /

Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pas...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCarthy, Anna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2001]
Colección:Console-ing passions: television and cultural power : 49
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Public Lives of TV
  • PART I : HISTORIES AND INSTITUTIONS Rhetorics of TV Spectatorship Outside the Home
  • 1. TV, Class, and Social Control in the 1940s Neighborhood Tavern
  • 2. Gendered Fantasies of TV Shopping in the Postwar Department Store
  • 3. Out-of-Home Networks in the 1990s
  • PART II : PLACES AND PRACTICES Reading TV Installations in Daily Life
  • 4. Shaping Public and Private Space with TV Screens
  • 5. Television at the Point of Purchase
  • 6. TelevisionWhile YouWait
  • 7. Terminal Thoughts on Art, Activism, and Video for Public Places
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index