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Make Room for TV (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Make Room for TV (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families
bought a television set--and a revolution in social life and
popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel
chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years
of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade,
television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did
Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of
watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an
unprecedented window on the world, or as a one-eyed monster that
would disrupt households and corrupt children? Drawing on an
ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to
articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the
fullest available account of the popular response to television in
the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus
for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the
perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to
new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than
turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national
stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way
Americans should live. Spigel chronicles this lively and
contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of
particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the
phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberated--from
how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to
whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial. Make Room for TV
combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture
with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America,
offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the
mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.
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