Introduction | |
Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955 | p. 3 |
The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows | p. 41 |
The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs | p. 71 |
Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker | p. 111 |
"Is This What You Mean by Color TV?": Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in NBC's Julia | p. 143 |
Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey | p. 169 |
Kate and Allie: "New Women" and the Audience's Television Archives | p. 203 |
All's Well That Doesn't End--Soap Opera and the Marriage Motif | p. 217 |
All that Television Allows: TV Melodrama, Postmodernism, and Consumer Culture | p. 227 |
Source Guide to TV Family Comedy, Drama, and Serial Drama, 1946-1970 | p. 253 |
Contributors | p. 279 |
Index | p. 285 |
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