The narrative situation and complications in a sitcom are typically resolved by the end of the episode.

With television capturing suburban audiences by the mid-1950s, movie producers made only family-friendly films to lure that audience back to theaters.

In what might be the earliest example of media synergy, some of the first magazines in France were collections of works taken mostly from newspapers.

The Sedition Act strengthened First Amendment protections for citizens.

Content communities on the Web include which of the following?

Third screens typically function as “catch-up services,” allowing consumers to watch TV shows or movies that played earlier.

By 2013, e-books represented more than 30 percent of adult fiction book sales in the United States.

Folk music ______.

During the Hollywood witch-hunts of the late 1940s and 1950s, many film executives and stars accused others in the film industry of being communist sympathizers.

Emile Berliner’s invention of ______ was significant because it allowed for mass reproduction of sound recordings and for labeling, which enabled the development of a star system.