The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social ConflictLynn Spigel, Michael Curtin Psychology Press, 1997 - 361 páginas Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue 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. |
Índice
introduction | 1 |
home fronts and new frontiers | 21 |
white flight | 47 |
nobodys woman? honey west and the new sexuality | 73 |
patty duke and teen tv | 95 |
dennis the menace the all american handful | 119 |
institutions of culture | 137 |
nation and citizenship | 245 |
bubbles blue hair and middle america | 265 |
from old frontier to new frontier | 287 |
the racial struggle | 305 |
abcs custer series | 327 |
television memory | 349 |
contributors 359 | |
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The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict Lynn Spigel,Michael Curtin Vista previa restringida - 2013 |
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict Lynn Spigel,Michael Curtin Vista previa restringida - 2013 |
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict Lynn Spigel,Michael Curtin Vista previa restringida - 2013 |