Science on the Air - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science on the Air write by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Science on the Air available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and “Our Friend the Atom.” Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves. But the exponential growth of listenership in the 1920s, from thousands to millions, and the networks’ recognition that each listener represented a potential consumer, turned science on the radio into an opportunity to entertain, not just educate. Science on the Air chronicles the efforts of science popularizers, from 1923 until the mid-1950s, as they negotiated topic, content, and tone in order to gain precious time on the air. Offering a new perspective on the collision between science’s idealistic and elitist view of public communication and the unbending economics of broadcasting, LaFollette rewrites the history of the public reception of science in the twentieth century and the role that scientists and their institutions have played in both encouraging and inhibiting popularization. By looking at the broadcasting of the past, Science on the Air raises issues of concern to all those who seek to cultivate a scientifically literate society today.
American Broadcasting
American Broadcasting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Broadcasting write by Lawrence Wilson Lichty. This book was released on 1975. American Broadcasting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy
Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy write by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley. This book was released on 2017-10-17. Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and radio was the most powerful and pervasive mass medium in the US. In 23 years of weekly radio broadcasts, by aiming all the insults at himself, Benny created Jack, the self-deprecating "Fall Guy" character. He indelibly shaped American humor as a space to enjoy the equal opportunities of easy camaraderie with his cast mates, and equal ego deflation. Benny was the master of comic timing, knowing just when to use silence to create suspense or to have a character leap into the dialogue to puncture Jack's pretentions. Jack Benny was also a canny entrepreneur, becoming one of the pioneering "showrunners" combining producer, writer and performer into one job. His modern style of radio humor eschewed stale jokes in favor informal repartee with comic hecklers like his valet Rochester (played by Eddie Anderson) and Mary Livingstone his offstage wife. These quirky characters bouncing off each other in humorous situations created the situation comedy. In this career study, we learn how Jack Benny found ingenious ways to sell his sponsors' products in comic commercials beloved by listeners, and how he dealt with the challenges of race relations, rigid gender ideals and an insurgent new media industry (TV). Jack Benny created classic comedy for a rapidly changing American culture, providing laughter that buoyed radio listeners from 1932's depths of the Great Depression, through World War II to the mid-1950s"--Provided by publisher.
Popular Radio
Popular Radio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Radio write by Kendall Banning. This book was released on 1926. Popular Radio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Public Radio and Television in America
Public Radio and Television in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Radio and Television in America write by Ralph Engelman. This book was released on 1996-04-22. Public Radio and Television in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Overview of public radio and television in the United States
