Volume I
Toby Miller Introduction
History
Part 1 Early Television
1. Samuel Brody Television: A New Weapon for the New Imperialist War The Daily Worker [June 14, 1930]
2. Jonathan Sterne Television Under Construction: American Television and the Problem of Distribution, 1926-62 Media Culture & Society, 21, 4, pp. 503-30 [1999]
3. Anna McCarthy 'Like an Earthquake': Theater Television, Boxing, and the Black Public Sphere Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16, 3-4, pp. 307-23 [1999]
4. William Boddy The Amateur, the Housewife, and the Salesroom Floor: Promoting Postwar US Television International Journal of Cultural Studies 1, 1, pp. 129-42 [1998]
5. Inger L. Stole There Is No Place Like Home: NBC's Search for a Daytime Audience, 1954-1957 Communication Review 2, 2, pp. 135-61 [1997]
6. Des Freedman How Her Majesty's Opposition Grew to Like Commercial Television: The Labour Party and the Origins of ITV Media History 5, 1, pp. 19-32 [1999]
7. Liesbet van Zoonen and Jan Wieten 'It Wasn't Exactly a Miracle': The Arrival of Television in Dutch Family Life Media Culture & Society 16, 4, pp. 641-59 [1994]
Part 2 The Mature System in the US and Western Europe
8. Michael Curtin Connections and Differences: The Spatial Dimension of Television History Film and History 30, 1, pp. 51-61 [2000]
9. Manuel Alvarado Selling Television, in Albert Moran, ed. Film Policy pp. 62-71 [London: Routledge, 1996]
10. América Rodriguez Creating an Audience and Remapping a Nation: A Brief History of US Spanish Language Broadcasting 1930-1980 Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16, 3-4, pp. 357-74 [1999]
11. Carmelo Garitaonandía Regional Television in Europe European Journal of Communication 8, 3, pp. 277-94 [1993]
12. Alison Harcourt The European Commission and the Regulation of the Media Industry Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 16, pp. 425-49 [1998]
13. Charlotte Brunsdon, Catherine Johnson, Rachel Moseley and Helen Wheatley Factual Entertainment on British Television: The Midlands TV Research Group's '8-9 Project' European Journal of Cultural Studies 4, 1, pp. 29-62 [2001]
14. Paolo Carpignano, Robin Andersen, Stanley Aronowitz and William Difazio Chatter in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: Talk Television and the 'Public Mind' Social Text 8, 3-9, 1, pp. 33-55 [1990]
Part 3 Spread Across the World
15. S. G. Lapin Television Broadcasting Great Soviet Encyclopedia 3rd ed. Vol. 25, pp. 484-86 [New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, 1980]
16. Arvind Rajagopal Mediating Modernity: Theorizing Reception in a Non-Western Society Communication Review 1, 4, pp. 441-69 [1996]
17. Steven Barraclough Pakistani Television Politics in the 1990s: Responses to the Satellite Television Invasion Gazette 63, 2-3, pp. 225-39 [2001]
18. Yu Huang and XuYu Broadcasting and Politics: Chinese Television in the Mao Era, 1958-1976 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 17, 4, pp. 563-79 [1997]
19. Nancy Sullivan Television and Video Production in Papua New Guinea: How Media Become the Message Public Culture, 5, 3, pp. 533-55 [1993]
20. Silvio Waisbord Leviathan Dreams: State and Broadcasting in South America Communication Review 1, 1, pp. 201-26 [1995]
21. Richard R. Wilk Colonial Time and TV Time: Television and Temporality in Belize Visual Anthropology Review 10, 1, pp. 94-102 [1994]
Volume II
Methods
Part 1 General Theory
22. Umberto Eco Towards a Semiotic Inquiry into the Television Message, translated by Paola Splendore Working Papers in Cultural Studies
