As seen on TV : the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s /

Marling, Karal Ann,

As seen on TV : the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s / [print] Karal Ann Marling. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)1994. - 328 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.



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.



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Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.

E169.M348.A874 1994