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No Heavenly Bodies

Autor Christine E. Evans, Lars Lundgren
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2023
"A history of Cold War-era satellite communication largely from U.S. and Soviet perspectives"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780262546904
ISBN-10: 0262546906
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 9 COLOR ILLUS., 18 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS.
Dimensiuni: 149 x 226 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: MIT Press Ltd

Notă biografică

Christine Evans is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her first book, Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television, received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies.

Lars Lundgren is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. His work has been published in Media History, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and International Journal of Communication.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 "Towers in the Sky": Satellites and Emerging Global Media Infrastructures 19
2 Promising Liveness: Contested Geography and Temporality in Live Satellite Broadcasting Events 45
3 Fragmented from the Beginning: The Entangled Origins of Intelsat and Intersputnik 69
4 "Space Begins on Earth": Selling, Building, and Representing Satellite Earth Stations 91
5 Hotlines, Handshakes, and Satellite Earth Stations: Infrastructural Globalization and Cold War High Politics 125
Epilogue 143
Terms and Abbreviations 159
Notes 163
Bibliography 207
Illustrations 225
Index 227