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Spectacular television :
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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New York;
I B Tauris;
2016.
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| Series: | International library of the moving image ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : what is spectacular television? What is (tele)visual pleasure?
- Part I: Spectacular histories, spectacular technologies. Television comes to town : the spectacle of television at the mid-twentieth-century exhibition and beyond
- Spectacular colour? Reconsidering the launch of colour television in Britain
- Part II: Spectacular landscapes and the natural world : exploring beautiful television. At home on safari : colonial spectacle, domestic space and 1950s television
- Visual pleasure, natural history television and televisual beauty
- Television's landscapes, (tele)visual pleasure and the imagined elsewhere
- Part III: Spectacular bodies and (tele)visual pleasure. Fascinating bodies : looking inside television's somatic spectacle
- The erotics of television
- Conclusion : sites of wonder, sights of wonder.