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Book SynopsisWhile much research into television has been historical, textual, or empirical, this volume approaches the topic from a sociocultural and feminist perspective, to address important questions from the viewpoint of the audience as well as from that of the industry.
Table of ContentsInstalling the television set - popular discourses on television and domestic space, 1948-1955, Lynn Spigel; the spectacularization of everyday life - recycling Hollywood stars and fans in early television variety shows Denise Mann; the meaning of memory - family, class, and ethnicity in early network television programmes, George Lipsitz; sit-coms and suburbs - positioning the 1950s homemaker, Mary Beth Haralovich; "Is this what you mean by colour TV?" - race, gender, and contested meanings in NBC's, Julia Aniko Bodroghkozy; defining women - the case of Cagney and Lacey, Julie D'Acci; Kate and Allie -"new" women and the audience's television archives, Robert H. Deming ; all's well that doesn't end - soap operas and the marriage motif, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis; all that television allows - TV melodrama, postmodernism and consumer culture, Lynne Joyrich; source guide to TV family comedy, drama and serial drama, 1946-1970, Dan Einstein, Nina Leibman, Randall Vogt, Sarah Berry, Jillian Steinberger, and William Lafferty.
