Welcome to the dreamhouse
Subtitle: popular media and postwar suburbs
By: Lynn Spigel.
Series: Console-ing passions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "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 post-war 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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.