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Make Room for TV

Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226769677
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Make Room for TV written by Lynn Spigel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Family Television

Author : David Morley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134955197
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Family Television written by David Morley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Make Room for TV

Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226769631
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Make Room for TV written by Lynn Spigel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Television and the American Family

Author : J. Alison Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135663904
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Television and the American Family written by J. Alison Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of a trend-setting volume provides an updated examination of the interaction between families and the most pervasive mass medium: television. Charting the dynamic developments of the American family and television over the past decade, this volume provides a comprehensive representation of programmatic research into family and television and examines extensively the uses families make of television, how extensions of television affect usage, families' evolving attitudes toward television, the ways families have been and are portrayed on television, the effects television has on families, and the ways in which families can mediate its impact on their lives. The volume is an invaluable resource for scholars and students in the areas of media and society, children and media, and family studies.

TV Family Values

Author : Alice Leppert
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813592690
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book TV Family Values written by Alice Leppert and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses on the impact the decade's television shows had on middle class family structure. These sitcoms sought to appeal to upwardly mobile “career women” and were often structured around non-nuclear families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms such as Full House, Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, and Who's the Boss? against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values.

Communication in History

Author : David Crowley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317349393
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Communication in History written by David Crowley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated in a new 6th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. With revised new readings, this anthology continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history". From print to the Internet, this book encompasses a wide-range of topics, that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history.

Prime-Time Families

Author : Ella Taylor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520074181
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Prime-Time Families written by Ella Taylor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives.

Big World, Small Screen

Author :
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272637
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Big World, Small Screen written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big World, Small Screen assesses the influence of television on the lives of the most vulnerable and powerless in American society: children, ethnic and sexual minorities, and women. Many in these groups are addicted to television, although they are not the principal audiences sought by commercial TV distributors because they are not the most lucrative markets for advertisers. This important book illustrates the power of television in stereotyping the elderly, ethnic groups, gays and lesbians, and the institutionalized and, thus, in contributing to the self-image of many viewers. They go on to consider how television affects social interaction, intellectual functioning, emotional development, and attitudes (toward family life, sexuality, and mental and physical health, for example). They illustrate the medium's potential to teach and inform, to communicate across nations and cultures?and to induce violence, callousness, and amorality. Parents will be especially interested in what they say about television viewing and children. Finally, they offer suggestions for research and public policy with the aim of producing programming that will enrich the lives of citizens all across the spectrum. Nine psychologists, members of the Task Force on Television and Society appointed by the American Psychological Association, have collaborated on Big World, Small Screen.

Living Room Lectures

Author : Nina C. Leibman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786352
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Living Room Lectures written by Nina C. Leibman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what real families "ought" to be. Yet feature films of the period often portrayed families in trouble, with parents and children in conflict over appropriate values and behaviors. Why were these representations of family apparently so far apart? Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family. Redefining the comedy as a family melodrama, she compares film and television depictions of familial power, gender roles, and economic attitudes. Leibman's explorations reveal how themes of guilt, deceit, manipulation, anxiety, and disfunctionality that obviously characterize such movies as Rebel without a Cause,A Summer Place, and Splendor in the Grass also crop up in such TV shows as The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,Father Knows Best,Leave It to Beaver,The Donna Reed Show, and My Three Sons. Drawing on interviews with many of the participants of these productions, archival documents, and trade journals, Leibman sets her discussion within a larger institutional history of 1950s film and television. Her discussions shed new light not only on the reasons for both media's near obsession with family life but also on changes in American society as it reconfigured itself in the postwar era.

The American Family on Television

Author : Marla Brooks
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476606900
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The American Family on Television written by Marla Brooks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sitcom made its first appearance in January of 1949 with the introduction of television's first family, The Goldbergs. Since the advent of the sitcom, televised fictional families have reflected the changing structure of American society. The sitcom emphasized first the lives of suburban, working class European immigrants and gradually expanded to encompass the multicultural urban phenomena of the 1960s. The roles of men and women in the fictional family have similarly been adjusted to depict women's movement into the workforce and the changing identity of the father. As censorship laws became less stringent, sitcom viewers also began to be exposed to the realities of changing family dynamics in America, watching as the traditional nuclear family diverged to include single-parent, two-father, and two-mother households. From the cultural upheaval of the mid-century to the "reality" craze of the new millennium, television's families have mimicked and even influenced the changing values of American society. This broadcast history covers more than 100 television families, from the Goldbergs to the Osbournes, who have provided entertainment and inspiration for the American public since 1949. An introduction to the cultural trends and social developments of each decade is provided prior to a summary of the significant series of that decade. Each series entry includes a description of the family, the date of the show's first and last broadcast, the broadcasting network, the day and time aired, and the cast of characters.

World Families Watch Television

Author : James Lull
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book World Families Watch Television written by James Lull and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represnting many of the worlds major regions, World Families Watch Television constitutes the first published collection of qualitative empirical studies analyzing the influence of television on the family. From a variety of theoretical perspectives, contributors discuss the concept of the family as defined in many cultures -- including the UK, North and South America, Europe, South Asia, and the Far East. They go on to consider the basic features of television in each area, review major themes in its literature, and provide an original, qualitative empirical study of the relationship between family life and its specific culture.

The Manson Family on Film and Television

Author : Ian Cooper
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476670439
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Manson Family on Film and Television written by Ian Cooper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a century the Manson Family has captured the public imagination--the lurid, inexplicable violence in a glamorous Hollywood setting, the bizarre and lengthy trials, and Charles Manson's strange charisma and willingness to embrace the role of evil icon. For years, the story has been documented, dramatized and lampooned in dozens of films and television programs. This comprehensive study examines the various on-screen portrayals, from factual accounts based on prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's true crime classic Helter Skelter to prime-time TV dramas to a claymation spoof and even hardcore porn.

Glued to the Tube

Author : Cheryl Pawlowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570714597
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Glued to the Tube written by Cheryl Pawlowski and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A media ecologist's view of the US's love affair with television and its effects on social and familial structures, as well as her impassioned arguments for turning the TV off. Pawlowski (speech communication, U. of Northern Colorado) outlines, for the general reader, the problems with television programming for regular viewers and, particularly, their families. She traces the history of TV viewing, including how programs have changed and what societal values this reflects or creates; the many roles the TV now fulfills that were previously occupied by people (family manager, gender mentor, sexual advisor, hero, friend, etc.); and what the future holds and how people may wean themselves from watching. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Prime-Time Families

Author : Ella Taylor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520911246
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Prime-Time Families written by Ella Taylor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-09-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives.

Behind and in Front of the Screen

Author : Barrie Gunter
Publisher : John Libbey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Behind and in Front of the Screen written by Barrie Gunter and published by John Libbey. This book was released on 1987 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ABC Family to Freeform TV

Author : Emily L. Newman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667357
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book ABC Family to Freeform TV written by Emily L. Newman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 1977 by the Christian Broadcasting Service (originally associated with Pat Robertson), the ABC Family/Freeform network has gone through a number of changes in name and ownership. Over the past decade, the network--now owned by Disney--has redefined "family programming" for its targeted 14- to 34-year-old demographic, addressing topics like lesbian and gay parenting, postfeminism and changing perceptions of women, the issue of race in the U.S., and the status of disability in American culture. This collection of new essays examines the network from a variety of perspectives, with a focus on inclusive programming that has created a space for underrepresented communities like transgender youth, overweight teens, and the deaf.

Drawn to Television

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Drawn to Television written by M. Keith Booker and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of prime time animation from "The Flintstones" to "Family Guy" and South Park's late-night appeal in the 21st century. This book describes the content and style of the major prime-time animated series, while also placing these series within their political and cultural contexts.