| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 243 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-230) and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction and Acknowledgments; 1 Industrializing Culture: The Regime of Repetition in the United States, 1790-1920; 2 Transcribed Adventures: Radio and the Recording; 3 (R): Film on Early Television; 4 Familiarity Breeds Content: Reconfiguring Television in the 1960s and 1970s; 5 Our Television Heritage: Reconceiving Past Television; 6 Old Wine in New Bottles: Broadcast Rerun Syndication since the 1980s; 7 TV Land: Cable and Satellite as Boutique Television; 8 Acquisitive Repetition: Home Video and the Television Heritage; Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Derek Kompare looks at how the long tradition of rerun syndication has come to determine television's place in American history and culture, and framed our understanding of what defines 'American television'. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Television reruns -- United States.
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Television reruns. |
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United States. |
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Television broadcasting -- United States -- History.
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Television broadcasting. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kompare, Derek, 1969- Rerun nation. New York : Routledge, 2005 (DLC) 2004017248 |
| ISBN |
0203337387 (electronic book) |
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9780203337387 (electronic book) |
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0415970547 (Cloth) |
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0415970555 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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