Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs

(Part of the Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power Series)

by Lynn Spigel

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In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television's changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring postwar U.S. media in the context of the period's reigning ideals about home and family life, Spigel looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomena, from...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822326965

ISBN13:9780822326960

Release Date:June 2001

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:440 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Arts, Music & Photography Humor & Entertainment Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences Television

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