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Author Patterson, Eleanor

Title Bootlegging the Airwaves Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution
Published Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (225 p.)
Series The History of Media and Communication Series
The History of Media and Communication Series
Contents Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hacking Broadcast History -- Bootlegging the Airwaves -- Bootlegging Broadcasting as Capturing Flow -- Bootlegged Recordings as a Broadcast Commodity -- Bootlegging as Distributive Labor -- Accessing Traces of Radio and Television Bootlegging -- Chapter Breakdown -- 1. Homemade Entertainment: The Prehistory of Bootlegging Radio -- Ephemerality and Preservation Culture -- Making Media Commodities Domestic -- Home-Recording Technologies and Domestic Media Production
Technological Convergence, Domestic Media, and Radio Bootlegging -- 2. Hello Again: The Informal Old-Time-Radio Economy -- From Networked Broadcasting to Networked Bootlegging -- The Development of the Informal Old-Time-Radio Network -- Historical Consciousness, OTR, and Race -- 3. Freeze-Framing Queerness: Tape Trading in Buddy-Cop Fan Cultures -- Tape Trading and Television -- Female Fans, Buddy-Cop Shows, and Tape-Trading Culture -- 4. We Had to Do It the Hard Way: Bootlegging Star Trek in Australia -- Communal Viewing of Bootlegged Episodes as Television Distribution
5. Enough of That Garbage: Wrestling Observer and the Intelligent Wrestling-Fan Community -- Televised Wrestling’s Regionalized Structure -- Tape Trading and the Intelligent Wrestling Fan -- Conclusion: Bootlegging after the Airwaves -- Bootlegging as Embodied Distributive Labor -- Bootlegging and the Production of Physical Commodities -- The Future of Bootlegging in the Streaming Era -- Notes -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252055249
0252055241