Hitch Your Antenna To The Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom Susan Murray

Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars! is the first cultural and industrial history of early television stardom. Susan Murray argues that television stars were central to the growth and development of American broadcasting. They were used notonly to promote programs and the sale of television sets and advertised consumer goods, but also to established network identities. Through profiles of well-known performers including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, and Lucille Ball, she showshow the television industry gave birth to the idea of TV stars and established a system of star production and management notably different from the Hollywood star system of the studio era. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Hitch Your Antenna To The Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom (Susan Murray)