The Studios Move into Prime Time
Hollywood and the Television Industry in the 1950s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8905105 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Boddy (0000-0002-3967-5828, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 23-23 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cinema Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-7101 • E-ISSN: 1527-2087 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1224894 |
| OpenAlex | W2330771849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Contemporary observers and historians of both the motion-picture industry and the network television industry portray the decade of the 1950s as a period of traumatic change. In traditional film histories, the period represents the site of convergent crises: the divorcement of the major studios from their theaters, the loss of a major part of the film audience, the political blacklist. In such accounts, the rise of network television becomes another unwelcome external intrusion. No longer able to ignore television, the studios belatedly recognize the electronic market and leap into prime-time programming in 1955, simultaneously selling off their feature libraries to the hungry new medium
Advertising · Art · Art history · Business · Hollywood · Humanities · Prime time · Studio · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Games and Media · Media, Journalism, and Communication History
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 1986 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |