Some of my most prized possessions (prized, yet sitting in a box at the bottom of a closet) are video-tapes from the 1980s containing hours of prime time programming recorded off of a local station in Connecticut. Though many of the shows are now availabl ...
Laura's discussion of alternative aesthetics in Paper Tiger reminded me of Nam June Paik's "The Medium is the Medium" which was broadcast on WGBH in Boston in 1969. His work contained a series of what seemed like unrelated images, many ...
Thank you for the wonderful comments, Mark! It's true that the word "airborne" is often very prominent in the MPATI's promotional materials and the hovering planes play a central role in the visual imagery it deployed. Though perhaps i ...
Jeff, that is very much how the MPATI understood what it was doing. Its goal was to improve the quality of education and to provide instruction in subject areas to students who otherwise would never be exposed to them. I haven't been able to track do ...
From the materials I've looked at, I haven't come across any mention of MPATI participation in extension education, though land-grant schools were very actively involved with the MPATI (its home base was Purdue, where the planes were housed, and ...
I've actually been thinking a good deal about the role of opening credits, especially in 1970s television, in situating the program and the audience within a particular place. I don't remember all that much about One Day at a Time, but I do reme ...
I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on this issue of authenticity, and on the implied binary between the authentic baseball experience and fan and the inauthentic--or less authentic--world of MLB. This is a topic I've been interested in for s ...
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