Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs

439 Pages·2001·2.439 MB·English

by  Lynn Spigel

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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 
PartI:TVHouseholds
TheSuburbanHomeCompanion:Televisionandthe
NeighborhoodIdealinPostwarAmerica 
PortableTV:StudiesinDomesticSpaceTravel 
PartII:WhiteFlight
FromDomesticSpacetoOuterSpace:ThesFantastic
FamilySitcom 
OuterSpaceandInnerCities:AfricanAmericanResponses
toNASA 
PartIII:BabyBoomKids
SeducingtheInnocent:ChildhoodandTelevisioninPostwar

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PartIV:LivingRoomtoGallery
HighCultureinLowPlaces:TelevisionandModern
Art,– 
BarbieswithoutKen:Femininity,Feminism,
andtheArt-CultureSystem 
PartV:RewindandFastForward
FromtheDarkAgestotheGoldenAge:
Women’sMemoriesandTelevisionReruns 
Yesterday’sFuture,Tomorrow’sHome 
Index 

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Thank you to my friends and colleagues for their wisdom and guid-
ance. Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D’Acci, Michael Curtin, and George
Lipsitz read various essays and inspired me with their own work. My
dearfriendsMargieSolovayandChrisBerryalwaysdeserveveryspecial
thanks.VictoriaJohnson,AnnaEverett,StevenClassen,ChrisAnderson,
EllenSeiter,DavidMorley,HoraceNewcomb,MoyaLuckett,Constance
Penley, Henry Jenkins, Herman Gray, Nick Browne, Jan Olsson, Mimi
White,WilliamForman,andMaryBethHaralovichallofferedmuchap-
preciatedsupport.I’malsogratefultofriendsandcolleaguesMarita
Sturken, Dana Polan,Tania Modleski, Marsha Kinder, Barbara Corday,
Michael Renov, Tara McPherson, Alison Trope, and Doug Thomas for
theirideasandcollaborationovertheyears.HeatherOsborne,InnisBar-
ton, and Liza Trevino provided valuable help with research. I am also
gratefultothepeopleattheWisconsinCenterStateHistoricalArchives,
the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, the USC Doheny Cinema Library,
the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Museum of Television and
Radio, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Museum of Modern Art
LibraryandArchive.Finally,IamespeciallythankfultoJeffreySconcefor
hiskindness,intelligence,andhumorwhileIputthiscollectiontogether.

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