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  • Make Room for TV

    Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America

    by Lynn Spigel ...
    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 ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • TV Snapshots

    An Archive of Everyday Life

    by Lynn Spigel ...
    In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today’s selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Mobile Cultures

    New Media in Queer Asia

    by Lynn Spigel ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    Mobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media—fax machines, mobile phones, the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, and global television—have grown exponentially in Asia over the past decade. This explosion of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Welcome to the Dreamhouse

    Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs

    by Lynn Spigel ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television’s changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring postwar U.S. media in the context of the period’s reigning ideals about home and family life, Spigel looks at a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Interrogating Postfeminism

    Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture

    Series series Console-ing Passions
    This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. Broadly defined, “postfeminism” encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Television as Digital Media

    Series series Console-ing passions
    In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture. Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user, and audience practices, the contributors develop a new critical paradigm for thinking about television ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Groove Tube

    Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion

    Series series Console-ing Passions
    Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune—or even willfully blind—to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time—such as *The Monkees, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Mod Squad—*this book challenges the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Production Culture

    Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television

    Series series Console-ing Passions
    In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles–based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many “below-the-line” laborers, including gaffers, editors, and camera operators. Caldwell analyzes the narratives and rituals through which workers make sense of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Makeover TV

    Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity

    Series series Console-ing Passions
    In 2004, roughly 25 makeover-themed reality shows aired on U.S. television. By 2009, there were more than 250, from What Not to Wear and The Biggest Loser to Dog Whisperer and Pimp My Ride. In Makeover TV, Brenda R. Weber argues that whether depicting transformations of bodies, trucks, finances, relationships, kids, or homes, makeover shows posit a self achievable only in the transition from the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Revolution Wasn't Televised

    Sixties Television and Social Conflict

    Edited by Lynn Spigel, Michael Curtin ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    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 ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory

    Series series
    Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody Awards. The essays in this volume explore the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, turning their ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Tuning Out Blackness

    Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television

    Series series Console-ing Passions
    Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the 1990s, Yeidy M. Rivero advances critical discussions about race, ethnicity, and the media. She shows ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD