Prime-time families : television culture in post-war America / Ella Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Ella, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and families--United States.

Television and families.

Television series--United States.

Television series.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1989]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Cultural Analysis and Social Change

2. Television as Family: The Episodic Series, 1946-1969

3. Prime-Time Relevance Television Entertainment Programming in the 1970s

4. Trouble at Home Television's Changing Families, 1970-1980

5. All in the Work-Family: Television Families in Workplace Settings

6. Family Television Then and Now

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612758669

9781282758667

1282758667

9780520911246

0520911245

9780585178400

0585178402

OCLC:

44960941