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portada welcome to the dreamhouse: popular media and postwar suburbs
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2001
Language
English
Pages
440
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.6 x 15.7 x 3.0 cm
Weight
0.69 kg.
ISBN
0822326965
ISBN13
9780822326960
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welcome to the dreamhouse: popular media and postwar suburbs

Lynn Spigel (Author) · Duke University Press · Paperback

welcome to the dreamhouse: popular media and postwar suburbs - Spigel, Lynn

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Synopsis "welcome to the dreamhouse: popular media and postwar suburbs"

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 television and toys to comic books and magazines. The volume considers not only how the media portrayed suburban family life, but also how both middle-class ideals and a perceived division between private and public worlds helped to shape the visual forms, storytelling practices, and reception of postwar media and consumer culture. Spigel also explores those aspects of suburban culture that media typically render invisible. She looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb. Issues of memory and nostalgia are central in the final section as Spigel considers how contemporary girls use television reruns as a source for women's history and then analyzes the current nostalgia for baby boom era family ideals that runs through contemporary images of new household media technologies. Containing some of Spigel's well-known essays on television's cultural history as well as new essays on a range of topics dealing with popular visual culture, Welcome to the Dreamhouse is important reading for students and scholars of media and communications studies, popular culture, American studies, women's studies, and sociology.

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