The Lucky Strike Papers: Journeys Through My Mother's Television Past (Revised Edition)
Title | The Lucky Strike Papers: Journeys Through My Mother's Television Past (Revised Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Lee Fielding |
Publisher | BearManor Media |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2019-01-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781629334080 |
The revised edition of The Lucky Strike Papers continues the exploration of live television which includes conversations with such early television luminaries as Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Raymond Scott, Merv Griffin, and more.
The Lucky Strike Papers: Journeys Through My Mother's Television Past (Revised Edition) (Hardback)
Title | The Lucky Strike Papers: Journeys Through My Mother's Television Past (Revised Edition) (Hardback) PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Lee Fielding |
Publisher | BearManor Media |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2019-01-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781629334097 |
A revised version of the book on classic live television, which includes conversations with such early television luminaries as Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Raymond Scott, Merv Griffin and more.
Science on American Television
Title | Science on American Television PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel Chotkowski |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2013-01-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226922014 |
As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas—both factual and fictional. Mr. Wizard performed experiments with milk bottles. Viewers watched live coverage of solar eclipses and atomic bomb blasts. Television cameras followed astronauts to the moon, Carl Sagan through the Cosmos, and Jane Goodall into the jungle. Via electrons and embryos, blood testing and blasting caps, fictional Frankensteins and chatty Nobel laureates, television opened windows onto the world of science. But what promised to be a wonderful way of presenting science to huge audiences turned out to be a disappointment, argues historian Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette in Science on American Television. LaFollette narrates the history of science on television, from the 1940s to the turn of the twenty-first century, to demonstrate how disagreements between scientists and television executives inhibited the medium’s potential to engage in meaningful science education. In addition to examining the content of shows, she also explores audience and advertiser responses, the role of news in engaging the public in science, and the making of scientific celebrities. Lively and provocative, Science on American Television establishes a new approach to grappling with the popularization of science in the television age, when the medium’s ubiquity and influence shaped how science was presented and the scientific community had increasingly less control over what appeared on the air.
Jeanne Devereaux, Prima Ballerina of Vaudeville and Broadway
Title | Jeanne Devereaux, Prima Ballerina of Vaudeville and Broadway PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Menzie Lesko |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2017-05-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1476666946 |
International vaudeville star and Broadway prima ballerina Jeanne Devereaux performed for millions across America and Europe from age eleven until her retirement at forty. A headliner at Radio City Music Hall, she led a large group of performers on one of the first USO Camp Shows tours to Japan. Born Jean Helman, she entered showbiz as a dancing trouper performing in palatial theaters and was one of the last vaudevillians surviving into the 2010s. In her later years living in Pasadena, California, Devereaux indulged her passion for research and writing in the Huntington Library's Rothenberg Reading Room, losing none of her intelligence and wit despite a fading memory. Drawing on personal interviews, theatrical programs, and her diary and letters, this biography illuminates the life and career of one of vaudeville's stars of stage, film, and television.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Title | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1970-06 |
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
New York Magazine
Title | New York Magazine PDF eBook |
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Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1985-07-15 |
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
New York Magazine
Title | New York Magazine PDF eBook |
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Pages | 182 |
Release | 1989-11-27 |
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.