Screen Culture

A Global History

Richard Butsch

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First published in 2019 by Polity Press

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5324-2 (hardback)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5325-9 (paperback)

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Names: Butsch, Richard, 1943- author.

Title: Screen culture : a global history / Richard Butsch.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2019. | Series: New directions in media history | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: LCSH: Mass media–History–20th century. | Mass media–History–21st century.

Classification: LCC P90 (ebook) | LCC P90 .B89 2019 (print) | DDC 302.23009/04–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035712

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In memory of my sisters, Ruth and Peggy,

and in appreciation of Ava and Noah as living inspirations.

Acknowledgments

In researching and writing this book I have striven to see the forest, but also to see the trees well enough to see how they make a forest. To do this, I have had to rely on sources produced by thousands of scholars, many not directly cited, from whom I have accumulated knowledge and insights over decades that allowed me to see the trees and the forest. I wish to thank those scholars.

I also wish to thank a few by name whose work and reflections have helped me through this project and to whom I am grateful: Richard Abel, Katherine Fuller, Sonia Livingstone, Richard Maltby, Virginia Nightingale, Janet Staiger, Silvio Waisbord, and anonymous reviewers for Polity Press. Further, I could not have done the research for this book without the help of Rose Hilgar, who tracked down and obtained for me, often beyond the call of duty, innumerable books and articles, primary and secondary sources through inter-library loans. Finally, as always, I thank Ava Baron, whose unstinting support and insightful guidance from beginning to end enabled me to find my way through the forest to a book manuscript.

Abbreviations

NYT	New York Times
MPW	Moving Picture World
HJFRT	Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
Annals	Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science
ILWCH	International Labor and Working Class History