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Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer » (1st Edition)

Authors: Lynn Spigel (Editor), Denise Mann
ISBN-13: 9780816620531, ISBN-10: 0816620539
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: April 1992
Edition: 1st Edition

	Introduction
	Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955	3
	The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows	41
	The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs	71
	Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker	111
	"Is This What You Mean by Color TV?": Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in NBC's Julia	143
	Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey	169
	Kate and Allie: "New Women" and the Audience's Television Archives	203
	All's Well That Doesn't End--Soap Opera and the Marriage Motif	217
	All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture	227
	Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama, and Serial Drama, 1946-1970	253
	Contributors	279
	Index	285