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Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched.

In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented "window on the world," or as a "one-eyed monster" that would disrupt households and corrupt children?

Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way Americans should live.

Spigel chronicles this lively and contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberated—from how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial.

Make Room for TV combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America, offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.

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Make Room For TV combines a powerful analysis of growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in post war America, Offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the focal point of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.

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Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Chair and Professor of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University. She is the author of Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs and Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; 1st edition (June 1, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226769674
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226769677
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.01 x 6.1 x 0.56 inches

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This book is not so much about what was ON TV so much as it is about how those programs reflected the American Family, sometimes in a kind of fun-house mirror. Americans invited the box into their homes, bringing the public sphere into the private sphere. In doing so they changed more than the layout of their living rooms. This book is a must-read for any student of Popular Culture, Television History or Post-War American History.

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Book is covered in markings- writing, underlying, etc. Makes it nearly impossible to read. :(

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turgid, scholarly work but it is what it is.

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This is a must-read for Cultural Studies theorists specializing in TV. I used it as a primary source in my doctoral dissertation in the field.

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Took an American Studies class at CSUF and needed this book. I believe it was $10 cheaper to buy online, and considering the prices at those stores, it's always nice to know you can find prices that aren't so ridiculous. The book came promptly, was packaged nicely, and the condition was as described.

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