Book ID: CBB938533865

Bright signals: a history of color television (2018)

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Murray, Susan (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 308
Language: English

First demonstrated in 1928, color television remained little more than a novelty for decades as the industry struggled with the considerable technical, regulatory, commercial, and cultural complications posed by the medium. Only fully adopted by all three networks in the 1960s, color television was imagined as a new way of seeing that was distinct from both monochrome television and other forms of color media. It also inspired compelling popular, scientific, and industry conversations about the use and meaning of color and its effects on emotions, vision, and desire. In Bright Signals Susan Murray traces these wide-ranging debates within and beyond the television industry, positioning the story of color television, which was replete with false starts, failure, and ingenuity, as central to the broader history of twentieth-century visual culture. In so doing, she shows how color television disrupted and reframed the very idea of television while it simultaneously revealed the tensions about technology's relationship to consumerism, human sight, and the natural world. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Leslie, Stuart W.
Daniela Zetti
Morris, Holly
Adam Fisher
Ray Brescia
Simeone, Michael
Concepts
Technology
Electronics industry
Technology and society
Technological innovation
Broadcasting, radio and television
Electronics
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Silicon Valley (California)
Japan
Germany
Europe
Canada
Institutions
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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