The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry 1925-1941. Joseph H. Udelson

Examining works from the full history of American television, this chapter focuses on three aspects of American gothic television: first, the entwined relationship between realism and the gothic in early television; second, the focus of gothic series on probable characters in improbable situations; and, finally, the division of gothic television into conventional dramatic domestic and workplace forms, and their challenge to that dramatic division.

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The Forgotten Bond : The CBS production of Casino Royale (1954)

The Cultural Life of James Bond ◽

10.5117/9789462982185_ch01 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

James Chapman

Keyword(s):

Television Drama ◽

James Bond ◽

American Television ◽

Television Network ◽

The Us ◽

History Of ◽

The 1950S ◽

Bond Character

In 1954, the US television network CBS broadcast a live studio dramatization of Casino Royale as an instalment of its drama anthology series Climax! Casino Royale was long thought to be “lost” and is still regarded as something of a curio item in the history of James Bond adaptations for the screen. This chapter offers a critical reassessment of the 1954 CBS production of Casino Royale by placing it in the institutional and aesthetic contexts of American television drama in the 1950s. In doing so, it argues that the Americanization of James Bond (played by American actor Barry Nelson) may be seen as part of a strategy of the cultural repositioning of the James Bond character for American consumption.

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Political and Technological Changes That Created Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly

Irony and Outrage ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190913083.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 32-47

Author(s):

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Television News ◽

The United States ◽

Political Polarization ◽

Media Industry ◽

Technological Changes ◽

Television Industry ◽

American Media ◽

History Of ◽

Cable Television Industry

This chapter describes the regulatory, political, and technological changes in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s that set the stage for the television satire and outrage programming of the early 2000s. It summarizes the story of the deregulation of the American media industry and argues that the resulting increased demand for profits from television news eroded the journalistic mission. It also explains the roots of political polarization in the United States, from social and cultural shifts to changes in the party nominating processes and to the increased role of soft (and dark) money in elections. The chapter chronicles the history of the cable television industry and how the proliferation of channels in the 1980s upended the economics of media, erasing the concept of the “mass audience” in favor of smaller niche audiences defined by psychographics and sociodemographics.

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