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Author:
Marling, Karal Ann.
Title:
As seen on TV : the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s / Karal Ann Marling.
Edition:
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Publisher:
Harvard University Press,
Copyright Date:
1996
Description:
328 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
Television broadcasting--United States--Influence.
Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318) and index.
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.
ISBN:
9780674048836 (pbk.)
0674048830 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)35517488
Locations:
UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

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