Screen culture : a global history / Richard Butsch
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019
Descript
308 pages ; 23 cm
SUMMARY
"Richard Butsch's expansive historical synthesis integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive examination of screen media and screen culture globally as they have evolved through the 20th and 21st centuries. Deeply engaging, this is a masterful, integrated global history"-- Provided by publisher
CONTENT
Introduction: a screen culture history -- American cinema to World War One -- Global cinema, 1900-1920 -- The Hollywood studio era, 1910s-1940s -- Global Hollywood, 1920s-1950s -- Western television in the broadcast era, 1945-1990 -- Post-colonial television, 1960s-1990s -- Digital screens in the new millennium -- Using digital in the new millennium -- Globalized media in the new millennium