We are pleased to announce a new book, "It's the Pictures That Got 

Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television," by Christine Becker.



The interplay between television and film in the 1950s transformed 

television production and programming, affected the careers of 

countless film actors, and challenged the traditional mechanisms of 

the Hollywood star system. In this groundbreaking study, Christine 

Becker asks why certain film stars, like Ronald Reagan and Ida 

Lupino, crossed over to television in this period while others did 

not, why some succeeded in the new medium and others failed, and how 

the presence of film stars shaped the nature of certain television 

genres. Using extensive primary source material and new archival 

research, "It's the Pictures That Got Small" argues that the early 

film-to-television crossover turned traditional myths of star-making 

inside out, fundamentally altering the standard workings of the 

Hollywood star system. By looking at a broad range of popular stars 

of the fifties, Becker paints a revealing portrait of the 

relationship between film and television in the waning days of the 

classical studio system and the budding years of commercial TV. The 

book includes an appendix of established film stars and the TV shows 

they appeared on.



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ORDERING DETAILS:



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adoption. Please request a copy of the book in a letter on your 

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Discover, AmEx). Mail your request to: UPNE, Attn: Exam Copies, 1 

Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon, NH 03766-1358, USA or fax to (603) 448-9429.



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