As seen on TV : the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s /

Discusses popular culture in the United States after the invention of the television.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Marling, Karal Ann
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996, ©1994.
Edition:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States.
Television broadcasting > United States > Influence.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Télévision > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Télévision > États-Unis > Influence.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Manners and customs
Popular culture
Television broadcasting > Influence
Television broadcasting > Social aspects
United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 1945-1970.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mamie Eisenhower's new look
  • Hyphenated culture: painting by numbers in the new age of leisure
  • Disneyland, 1955: the place that was also a TV show
  • Autoeroticism: America's love affair with the car in the television age
  • When Elvis cut his hair: the meaning of mobility
  • Betty Crocker's picture cook book: the aesthetics of food in the 1950s
  • Nixon in Moscow: appliances, affluence, and Americanism.

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