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Invasion of the mind snatchers : television's conquest of America in the fifties / Eric Burns.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.3.U5 B85 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
- Television broadcasting.
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Television broadcasting--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Philo T. Farnsworth's discontent
- The medium. Damning the "theenk"
- The new American family
- The hula hoop and the bomb
- Invisible doughnuts and coonskins caps
- "Really big shows"
- The competition
- The messages. The first senator
- The second senator
- The third senator
- Advertising for President
- The mystic knights of the sea
- "The technological equivalent of a crucifix"
- Sexless objects
- The constant parade
- Serving the sky chief
- The Black Sox of the airwaves
- Epilogue : the man with a secret.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439902882
- 1439902887
- OCLC:
- 468973625
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