As Seen on TV The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in The 1950s

Name: As Seen on TV The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in The 1950s
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ISBN: 9780674048836

ISBN-10: 0674048830

ISBN-13: 9780674048836

Edition: 1994

Authors: Karal Ann Marling

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In As Seen on TV, the author explores the new television culture which emerged in America during the 1950s. Marling examines the ways in which Americans saw things, and how the new technology was used by those in positions of power and influence.

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Karal Ann Marling is Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.



Prologue



Namie Eisenhower's New Look



Hyphenated Culture: Painting by Numbers in the New Age of Leisure



Disneyland, 1955: The Place That Was Also a TV Show



Autoeroticism: America's Love Affair with the Car in the Television Age



When Elvis Cut His Hair: The Meaning of Mobility



Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book: The Aesthetics of food in the 1950s



Nixon in Moscow: Appliances, Affluence, and Americanism


Afterword


Notes


Illustration Credits


Acknowledgments


Index