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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. ; 25 cm. - Console-ing passions .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. TV Households : The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America -- Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel. Pt. II. White Flight : From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sitcom -- Outer Space and Inner Cities: African American Responses to NASA. Pt. III. Baby Boom Kids : Seducing the Innocent: Childhood and Television in Postwar America -- Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips. Pt. IV. Living Room to Gallery : High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art, 1950-1970 -- Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System. Pt. V. Rewind and Fast Forward : From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women's Memories and Television Reruns -- Yesterday's Future, Tomorrow's Home.

0822326876 (alk. paper) 0822326965 (pbk. : alk. paper)

00045186


Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.

PN1992.6 / .S663 2001

302.23/45/0973

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