On Screen Rivals: Cinema and Television in the United States and Britain

Stokes, Jane C.

ISBN 10: 031222768X / ISBN 13: 9780312227685

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000

About this Item

Trade paperback, xv + 237 pages including black-and-white illustrations; light shelf wear, but very gently read, if at all, interior very clean and unmarked but there is pale yellow (white wine?) staining along the fore edges of the first 60 pages.

Seller Inventory # 032511

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Screen Rivals: Cinema and Television in the United States and Britain
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031222768X
• ISBN 13: 9780312227685
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Very Good -
• Seller catalogs:
  • Film and Television

About this title

Synopsis

This lively text compares two different media--film and television--in two different countries--Britain and the US--in an attempt to chart the changing relationship between them and their relative status in the cultural sphere. Integrating historical with textual analysis in a fruitful and wide-ranging manner, it focuses particularly on the meaning of television by exploring the medium's construction and representation in the rival cultural technology of film. The introduction takes the reader from the invention of television to the present day, then the complex relationship between television and film is explored in detail.

About the Author

Jane Stokes is Senior Lecturer in Media and Society at South Bank University.