Main entry:

Spigel, Lynn.

Title & Author:

Welcome to the dreamhouse : popular media and postwar suburbs / Lynn Spigel.

Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2001.

Description:

426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Console-ing passions

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 sitcom ; Outer space and inner cities : African American responses to NASA -- Baby Boom kids. Seducing the innocent : childhood and television 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.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"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 phenomena, from television and toys to comic books and magazines."--Back cover

Resources:
ebrary
E-book - Full text from Dawsonera. To print, you will need to select one page at a time

ISBN:

0822326876 (alk. paper)
0822326965 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822326878 (alk. paper)
9780822326960 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822383178
0822383179

Subject:

Television broadcasting Social aspects United States.
Télévision Aspect social États-Unis.
Television broadcasting Social aspects
Fernsehen
Soziologie
United States
USA

Added entries:

Console-ing passions.

Welcome to the dream house
Dreamhouse

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218595
Call No.: PN1992.6.S6 2001
Status: Available