Have your readers ever wondered how a radio works? Do they know there are several types of radios? From car radios to two-way radios, readers learn about how radio began has simple wires and metal to the devices we have today.

Sound Streams is the first book to historicize radio-internet convergence from the early '90s through the present, demonstrating how so-called new media represent an evolutionary shift that is nevertheless historically consistent with earlier modes of broadcasting.

This report, the third in a series, brings forward to October 1, 1951, estimates of the impact of television on evening radio listening.

TV is an undeniable component of our culture and contains many clues to who we are, what we value, and where we might be headed in the future. Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural relevance of TV from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948-1975) and the Cable Era (1976-1994). He begins with the laying of the first telegraph line in 1844. Then considers the remodeling of television's look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country. Edgerton concludes with a discerning look at our current Digital Era (1995-present) and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America's social, political, and economic landscape. Richly researched and engaging, Edgerton's history tracks television's growth into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social catalyst, a viable art form, and a complex and dynamic reflection of the American mind and character.

When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It's too dumbed-down, they say; it's no longer news but entertainment, celebrity-obsessed and vapid. The critics may be right. But, as Charles L. Ponce de Leon explains in That's the Way It Is, TV news has always walked a fine line between hard news and fluff. Ponce de Leon traces the entire history of televised news, from the household names of the late 1940s and early '50s, through the rise of cable, the political power of Fox News, and the satirical punch of Colbert and Stewart. Highlighting the contradictions and paradoxes at the heart of TV news, and telling a story rich in familiar figures and fascinating anecdotes, That's the Way It Is will be the definitive account of how television has showed us our history as it happens.

Surveys the history of television and the different kinds of programs broadcast, including situation comedies, dramas, and children's television.

In this exhaustive volume on the history of motion pictures in America, Gomery deals with movie distribution and presentation. The first section presents a history of movie display from nickelodeons to VCRs. Of particular interest is the evidence that television was not responsible for the decline in moviegoing. The second section deals with specialty operations, including art-house cinemas and theaters for African-Americans. The final section looks at the effect of technological innovations, from the emergence of sound to wide-screen movies and the advent of home video. Tracing the impact of child-bearing patterns, the rise of the suburbs and shopping malls and America's automobile culture as seen in the form of drive-in theaters, this volume is as much a social history of the United States as it is a history of movie exhibition.

A fascinating look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel. Joseph Clark combines an examination of the newsreel's methods of production, distribution, and reception with an analysis of its representational strategies to understand the newsreel's place in the history of twentieth-century American culture and film history. Using several case studies, including the newsreel's coverage of Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the Sino-Japanese War, News Parade shows how news film transformed the relationship between its audience and current events, as well as the social and political consequences of these changes. It pays particular attention to how discourses of race and gender worked together with the rhetoric of speed, mobility, and authority to establish the power and privilege of newsreel spectatorship. In the age of fake news and the profound changes to journalism brought on by the internet, News Parade demonstrates how new technologies and media reshaped the American public's relationship with the news in the 1930s--a history that can help us to better understand the transformations happening today.

This will be on the reserve cart. The first actualities and news films, 1889-1900 -- The first war films -- Faking the early news films -- The American silent news films -- Introduction of the silent newsreel -- Prewar competition -- The newsreel at war, 1911-1918 -- The postwar silent newsreel -- Growth and expansion during the 1920's -- Introduction of the sound newsreel -- Style, structure, and operation of the major newsreels -- Newsreel content during the 1930's -- Film-industry Attitudes toward newsreel production and release -- Criticism of the sound newsreel, 1929-60 -- The widening credibility gap -- The decline of the newsreel -- The end of the newsreel -- The summing up.