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Welcome to the dreamhouse : popular media and postwar suburbs / Lynn Spigel.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Spigel, Lynn.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Console-ing passions.
Console-ing passions
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
Television broadcasting.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (439 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Historical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar.
Contents:
The suburban home companion: television and the neighborhood ideal in postwar America
Portable TV: studies in domestic space travel
From domestic space to outer space: the 1960s fantastic family sitcom
Outer space and inner cities: African American responses to NASA
Seducing the innocent: childhood and television in postwar America
Innocence abroad: the geopolitics of childhood in postwar kid strips
High culture in low places: televisiion and modern art, 1950-1970
Barbies without Ken: femininity, feminism, and the art-culture system
From the Dark Ages to the golden age: women's memories and television reruns
Yesterday's future, tomorrow's home.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612920011
9781282920019
1282920014
9780822383178
0822383179
OCLC:
850215574

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