Readings for today:
- Lynn Spigel, "Domestic Ideals and Family Amusements" and “The Home Theater,” in Make Room for TV, pp. 11-35; 99-139.
- Pierre Bourdieu, "Television," European Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2001): 245–256.
- Sharon Sharp, "Television, Gender and Space: An Overview of Lynn Spigel," Science Fiction Film and Television, Volume 2, Issue 2, Spring 2009, pp. 281-292.
- Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and the Cultural Form (Routledge: 2003). Originally published in 1974.
- Jonathan Sterne, "Television under construction: American television and the problem of distribution, 1926-62," Media, Culture & Society, 1999, 21: 503-530.
- Max Dawson, "Home Video and the 'TV Problem': Cultural Critics and Technological Change," Technology and Culture, Vol. 48 (2007), pp. 524-549.
- Lila Abu-Lughod, "Islam and Public Culture: The Politics of Egyptian TV Serials," Middle East Report, No. 180, Power, Mass Media and the Middle East. (Jan-Feb, 1993): 25-30.
- John Fiske, Television Culture (Routledge: 1987), Chapters 1-2.
- Evan I. Schwartz, "Who Really Invented Television?" Technology Review, September, 2000.
- UHF, starring Weird Al Yankovic.
- Museum of Television.
