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TitleCable visions : television beyond broadcasting / edited by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, and Anthony Freitas.PublishedNew York, N.Y. : New York University Press, c2007.FormatBook
Descriptionvii, 368 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

LinkTable of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007009176.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2007009176-d.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2007009176-b.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents|Acknowledgments --| |Introduction --| |pt. 1.|Institutions and audiences --| |Introduction --| |1. The|moms ’n’ pops of CATV /| Megan Mullen --| |2. A|taste of class : pay-TV and the commodification of television in Postwar America /| John McMurria --| |3.|Cable’s digital future /| Francois Bar| |andJonathan Taplin --| |4.|If it’s not TV, what is it? the case of U.S. subscription television /| Amanda D. Lotz --| |5.|Where the cable ends : television in fringe areas /| Lisa Parks --| |pt. 2.|Channels --| |Introduction --| |6.|Discovery’s Wild Discovery : the growth and globalization of TV’s animal genres /| Cynthia Chris --| |7.|Tunnel vision and food : a political-economic analysis of Food Network /| Cheri Ketchum --| |8.|Target market black : BET and the branding of African-America /| Beretta E. Smith-Shomade --| |9.|Monolingualism, biculturalism, and cable TV : HBO Latino and the promise of the multiplex /| Katynka Z. Martinez --| |10.|Gay programming, gay publics : public and private tensions in lesbian and gay cable channels /| Anthony Freitas --| |11. The|Nickelodeon brand : buying and selling the audience /| Sarah Banet-Weiser --|
|pt. 3.|Cable programs : the platinum age of television? --| |Introduction --| |12.|Cable watching : HBO, The Sopranos, and discourses of distinction /| Dana Polan --| |13.|Bank tellers and flag wavers : cable news in the United States /| Toby Miller --| |14.|Dualcasting : Bravo’s gay programming and the quest for women audiences /| Katherine Sender --| |15.|I’m rich, bitch!!! comedy of Chappelle’s show /| Christine Acham --| |16. The|WWE’s global reach : Latino fans and wrestlers /| Ellen Seiter --| |About the contributors --| |Index.|
ISBN9780814799499 (cloth : alk. paper)0814799493 (cloth : alk. paper)9780814799505 (pbk. : alk. paper)0814799507 (pbk. : alk. paper)SubjectCable television -- United States.
Add.EntryBanet-Weiser, Sarah, 1966-
Chris, Cynthia, 1961-
Freitas, Anthony.

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