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Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space

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Description for Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space Paperback. Examines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium. The author explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 328 pages, 32 b&w photographs, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1K; APF; APT; GTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
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 pass the time in workplaces of all kinds. In Ambient Television Anna McCarthy explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home.
Discussing the roles television has played in different institutions from 1945 to the present day, McCarthy draws on a wide ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Console-ing Passions
Condition
New
Weight
561g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822326922
SKU
V9780822326922
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space
“Ambient Television offers a long overdue consideration of television spectatorship through a study of television's strategic positioning in a variety of public environments outside the home. Anna McCarthy's superb historical research has unearthed much fascinating material which will be of interest to artists and media critics. Anyone wishing to understand more fully our ever expanding media culture will benefit from ... Read more

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