Small screens, big ideas : television in the 1950s /
Thumim, Janet,1945-
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris,
2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-253) and indexes.
I've seen this one before : the construction of 'classic TV' on cable television / Derek Kompare -- Selling soap : post-war television soap opera and the American housewife / Kristen Hatch -- Study of a mad housewife : psychiatric discourse, the suburban home and the case of Gracie Allen / Allison McCracken -- Lessons from Uncle Miltie : ethnic masculinity and early television's vaudeo star / Susan Murray -- Nothin' could be finah : The Dinah Shore Chevy show / Lola Clare Bratten -- Re-made for television : Hedy Lamarr's post-war star textuality / Diane Negra -- Maureen O'Hara's 'Confidential' life : recycling stars through gossip and moral biography / Mary Desjardins -- Matinee theater : difference, compromise and the 1950s daytime audience / Matthew Murray -- The BBC and the birth of The Wednesday Play, 1962-66 : institutional containment versus 'agitational contemporaneity' / Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh -- Mystery and imagination : anatomy of a Gothic anthology series / Helen Wheatley -- Exploiting the intimate screen : The quartermass experiment, fantasy and the aesthetic potential of early television drama / Catherine Johnson -- This week in 1956 : the introduction of current affairs on ITV / Victoria Wegg-Prosser -- Women at work : popular drama on British television c1955-60 / Janet Thumim -- Crackint open the set : television repair and tinkering with gender, 1949-1955 / Lisa Parks.
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