Welcome to the Dreamhouse - Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs

"Lynn Spigel's "Welcome to the Dreamhouse "is quite simply superb. It is original, impeccably researched, dazzlingly intelligent, and prickling with humor."--Julie D'Acci, author of "Defining Women: Television and the Case of "Cagney and Lacey

List of contents

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
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Index

About the author

Lynn Spigel

Summary

Exploring post-war US media in the context of the period's reigning ideals about home and family life, the author looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomenon, from television and toys to comic books and magazines. It is useful for students and scholars of media studies, popular culture, American studies, women's studies, and sociology.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Spigel, Spigel, Lynn Spigel
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2001
• EAN: 9780822326878
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2687-8
• No. of pages: 440
• Weight: 1034 g
• Illustrations: 37 b&w photographs
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Amerika, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Medienwissenschaften, Regionalstudien