Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars : Early Television and Broadcast Stardom 9781135465209, 9780415971300

First Published in 2005. In this engaging cultural and industrial history of early television, Susan Murray examines how

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Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars : Early Television and Broadcast Stardom
9781135465209, 9780415971300

The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio sy

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The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio sy

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Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in “star studies,” Brazilian film has received comparatively little a

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