Books by Susan Murray
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Technology and Culture, 2020
JULY 2020 VOL. 61 774 DuBarry testified in the U.S. Congress at the 1949 FCC Color Television sta... more JULY 2020 VOL. 61 774 DuBarry testified in the U.S. Congress at the 1949 FCC Color Television standards hearing that, at the first American Medical Association demonstration earlier that year, clinical demonstrations were transmitted over closed-circuit five hours a day over four days to an estimated audience of thirty-thousand doctors and their families. 5 Reporting on the event, Life magazine predicted color television would have a significant impact on the medical field, claiming it would "supplant the student-eye view of an operation (too often a row of smock-clad backs) with a surgeon eye's view." 6 By the mid-1950s, the magazine asserted, these presentations would be even more spectacular, with screens as large as 6 × 4 feet "bringing enlargement and detail that not even the surgeon himself can enjoy." 7
Television History, the Peabody Archives, and Cultural Memory, 2019
Media & Society, 6th edition , 2019
Companion to the History of American Broadcasting, 2018
Public Culture, 2015
Reality programming has altered the landscape of broadcast television over the past decade, usher... more Reality programming has altered the landscape of broadcast television over the past decade, ushering in new industrial labor practices, new narrative/textual codes, a heightened interdependence of broadcast and digital platforms, and more "ordinary" forms of celebrity. This article focuses on the specific forms of celebrity generated within the reality television context. Reality television derives its claim to the real by spotlighting the emotional expressiveness of ordinary people and branding this expressiveness as a signifier of both individuals and the genre as a whole. We are interested in the unique qualities of reality TV celebrity as it traverses bodies and screens and operates both inside and outside what we call the "emotion economy" of contemporary reality television.
Saturday Night Live and American Television, 2013
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Books by Susan Murray
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