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Welcome to the dreamhouse : popular media and postwar suburbs /

Spigel, Lynn.

Welcome to the dreamhouse : popular media and postwar suburbs / Lynn Spigel. - Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001. - 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Console-ing passions. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Part I. TV Households 1. The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America 2. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel Part II. White Flight 3. From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sit-Com Part III. Baby Boom Kids 5. Seducing the Innocent: Television and Childhood in Postwar America 6. Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips Part IV. Living Room to Gallery 7. High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art, 1950-1970 8. Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System Part V. Rewind and Fast Forward 9. From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women's Memories and Television Reruns 10. Yesterday's Future, Tomorrow's Home Index

0822326876 0822326965

00045186


Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.

PN1992.6 / .S663 2001

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