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Author Taylor, Ella.

Title Prime-time families : television culture in postwar America / Ella Taylor.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1989]
©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages)
Note Based on the author's thesis (Brandeis University).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Cultural Analysis and Social Change; 2. Television as Family: The Episodic Series, 1946-1969; 3. Prime-Time Relevance: Television Entertainment Programming in the 1970s; 4. Trouble at Home: Television's Changing Families, 1970-1980; 5. All in the Work-Family: Television Families in Workplace Settings; 6. Family Television Then and Now; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary Prime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives.
Subject Television and families -- United States.
Television series -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- General.
Television and families. (OCoLC)fst01733451
Television series. (OCoLC)fst01720041
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Televisie.
Kijkgedrag.
Sociale aspecten.
United States.
Other Form: Print version: Taylor, Ella. Prime-time families. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1989 0520058674 (DLC) 89031544 (OCoLC)19511631
ISBN 9780520911246 (electronic bk.)
0520911245 (electronic bk.)
0585178402 (electronic bk.)
9780585178400 (electronic bk.)
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