Spigel TV Snapshots

An Archive of Everyday Life
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2289-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Lynn Spigel explores historical snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s, showing how TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spigel, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Companion Technologies 1
1. TV Portraits: Picturing Families and Household Things 25
2. TV Performers: A Theater of Everyday Life 72
3. TV Dress-Up: Fashion Poses and Everyday Glamour 121
4. TV Pinups: Sex and the Single TV 175
5. TV Memories: Snapshots in Digital Times 222
Conclusion: Hard Stop 255
Notes 263
Bibliography 289
Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn Spigel is Frances Willard Professor of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University and author of Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs, also published by Duke University Press, TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television, and Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.