(Hardback)

Tracing public and critical responses to TV from its pioneering days, this work gathers and gives context to the reactions of those who saw television's early broadcasts. It also shows how social and media critics, literary and visual artists, and others expressed their charmed or chagrinned responses to television in its earliest decades.

(Hardback)

An account of early radio's contributions to US social and cultural life, this account brings together varied perspectives of listeners who recall the programmes that delighted and entranced them.