Bright Signals
A History of Color Television
1st Edition
Published on 26. July 2018
320 pages
978-0-8223-7170-0 (ISBN)
Description
Susan Murray traces four decades of technological, cultural, and aesthetic debates about the possibility, use, and meaning of color television within the broader history of twentieth-century visual culture.
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Susan Murray is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom, and the coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. "And Now-Color": Early Color Systems 11
2. Natural Vision Versus "Tele-Vision": Defining and Standardizing Color 34
3. Color Adjustments: Experiments, Calibrations, and Color Training, 1950-1955 86
4. Colortown, USA: Expansion, Stabilization, and Promotion, 1955-1959 127
5. The Wonderful World of Color: Network Programming and the Spectacular Real, 1960-1965 176
6. At the End of the Rainbow: Global Expansion, the Space Race, and the Cold War 217
Conclusion 251
Notes 259
Bibliography 293
Index 303
Introduction 1
1. "And Now-Color": Early Color Systems 11
2. Natural Vision Versus "Tele-Vision": Defining and Standardizing Color 34
3. Color Adjustments: Experiments, Calibrations, and Color Training, 1950-1955 86
4. Colortown, USA: Expansion, Stabilization, and Promotion, 1955-1959 127
5. The Wonderful World of Color: Network Programming and the Spectacular Real, 1960-1965 176
6. At the End of the Rainbow: Global Expansion, the Space Race, and the Cold War 217
Conclusion 251
Notes 259
Bibliography 293
Index 303
