Just a few years in the mid-1950s separated the "golden age" of television's live anthology drama from Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" pronouncement. Fif

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This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and te

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The book charts the evolving relationship between cinema and radio during the heyday of the two media and compares and contrasts their development in Britain an