Welcome to the Dreamhouse Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs

Name: Welcome to the Dreamhouse Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
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ISBN: 9780822326960

ISBN-10: 0822326965

ISBN-13: 9780822326960

Edition: 2001

Authors: Lynn Spigel

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In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television's changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring post-war U.S. media in the context of the period's reigning ideals about home and family life, Spigel looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomenon, from television and toys to comic books and magazines.The volume considers not only how the media portrayed suburban family life, but also how both middle-class ideals and a perceived division between private and public worlds helped to shape the visual…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.65" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction



TV Households



The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America



Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel



White Flight



From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sit-Com



Baby Boom Kids



Seducing the Innocent: Television and Childhood in Postwar America



Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips



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



Rewind and Fast Forward



From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women's Memories and Television Reruns



Yesterday's Future, Tomorrow's Home


Index