Bootlegging the airwaves : alternative histories of radio and television distribution / Eleanor Patterson.

"Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content via informal networks that crisscrossed transnational boundaries. Eleanor Patterson's fascinating cultural history explores the distribution...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Patterson, Eleanor, 1983- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Homemade entertainment: the prehistory of bootlegging radio
  • Hello again: the informal old-time-radio economy
  • Freeze-framing queerness: tape trading in buddy-cop fan cultures
  • We had to do it the hard way: bootlegging Star trek in Australia
  • Enough of that garbage: Wrestling Observer and the intelligent wrestling fan community
  • Conclusion: bootlegging after the airwaves.