Authors: Lynn Spigel (Editor), Michael Curtin
ISBN-13: 9780415911221, ISBN-10: 0415911222
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 1997
Edition: New Edition
Caricatures of sixties televisioncalled a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixtiescontinue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life, it became the object of intense debates over childraising, education, racism, gender, technology, politics, violence, and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society, attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s.
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The "Outer Limits" of Oblivion | 21 |
2 | White Flight | 47 |
3 | Nobody's Woman? Honey West and the New Sexuality | 73 |
4 | Girl Watchers: Patty Duke and Teen TV | 95 |
5 | Dennis the Menace, "The All American Handful" | 119 |
6 | The Independents: Rethinking the Television Studio System | 139 |
7 | Senator Dodd Goes to Hollywood: Investigating Video Violence | 161 |
8 | James Dean in a Surgical Gown: Making TV's Medical Formula | 185 |
9 | The Smothers Brother Comedy Hour and the Youth Rebellion | 201 |
10 | Blues Skies and Strange Bedfellows: The Discourse of Cable Television | 221 |
11 | Dynasty in Drag: Imagining Global TV | 245 |
12 | Citizen Welk: Bubbles, Blue Hair, and Middle America | 265 |
13 | From Old Frontier to New Frontier | 287 |
14 | Southern Discomforts: The Racial Struggle Over Popular TV | 305 |
15 | White Network/Red Power: ABC's Custer Series | 327 |
16 | Remembering Civil Rights: Television, Memory, and the 1960s | 349 |
Contributors | 359 |