Invasion of the mind snatchers
Subtitle: television's conquest of America in the fifties
By: by Eric Burns
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439902882; 9781439902905
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Philo T. Farnsworth's discontent; title: The medium. Damning the "theenk"; title: The new American family; title: The hula hoop and the bomb; title: Invisible doughnuts and coonskins caps; title: Really big shows; title: The competition; title: The messages. The first senator; title: The second senator; title: The third senator; title: Advertising for President; title: The mystic knights of the sea; title: "The technological equivalent of a crucifix"; title: Sexless objects; title: The constant parade; title: Serving the sky chief; title: The Black Sox of the airwaves; title: Epilogue.