Welcome to the Dreamhouse Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs (Paperback)
| Author: Lynn Spigel |
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Publish Date: 4/16/2007
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| Historical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar. |
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Through ten related essays, scholar Spigel examines the role of television in American life and society, with particular attention to subjects such as gender and sex.
Through ten related essays, scholar Spigel examines the role of television in American life and society, with particular attention to subjects such as gender and sex.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.....................................................ix
Introduction.........................................................1
Part I: TV Households
The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the
Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America...........................31
Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel...................60
Part II: White Flight
From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic
Family Sitcom..................................................107
Outer Space and Inner Cities: African American Responses
to NASA........................................................141
Part III: Baby Boom Kids
Seducing the Innocent: Childhood and Television in
Postwar America................................................185
Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar
Kid Strips.....................................................219
Part IV: Living Room to Gallery
High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art,
1950-1970......................................................265
Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the
Art-Culture System.............................................310
Part V: Rewind and Fast Forward
From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women's Memories
and Television Reruns..........................................357
Yesterday's Future, Tomorrow's Home............................381
Index..............................................................409
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