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History and Television (3004 words) |
 | Television's ubiquity suggests that its conceptions of history--both its representations of specific events and its appropriation of history as a way of understanding the world--must be taken seriously. |
| In this sense television acts as an agent of history and memory, recording and preserving representations to be referenced in the future. |
| Television often focuses on periods which are based in the recent past and thus overdetermined in their familiarity; or, the chosen moments are widely recognized as eras of national transition or upheaval, providing opportunity for the exploration of many socially charged topics. |
| Television History (737 words) |
| Electronic television is based on the development of the cathode ray tube, which is the picture tube found in modern TV sets. |
| Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in the late 1940's. |
| The History of Lava Lamps and Craven Wal... |
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