{"product_id":"private-screenings-9780816620531","title":"Private Screenings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstalling 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.","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405934993751,"sku":"9780816620531","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816620531.jpg?v=1730493960","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/private-screenings-9780816620531","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}