Make Room for TV - Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America

Make Room For TV combines a powerful analysis of growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in post war America, Offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the focal point of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.

About the author

Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Chair and Professor of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University. She is the author of Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs and Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Spigel
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1992
• EAN: 9780226769677
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76967-7
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Film, Kino, Soziologie: Familie und Beziehungen, Soziologie: Sport und Freizeit, Fernsehen, TV