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Author Marling, Karal Ann.

Title As seen on TV : the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s / Karal Ann Marling.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.92 MARLING    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  973.92 MARLING    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.92 MARLING    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.92 MARLING    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  791.4509 M348A    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  973.92 MARLING    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  973.92 MARLING    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  973.92 MA    Check Shelf
Description 328 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-318) and index.
Contents Prologue -- 1. Mamie Eisenhower's new look -- 2. Hyphenated culture : painting by numbers in the new age of leisure -- 3. Disneyland, 1955 : the place that was also a TV show -- 4. Autoeroticism : America's love affair with the car in the television age -- 5. When Elvis cut his hair : the meaning of mobility -- 6. Betty Crocker's picture cook book : the aesthetics of food in the 1950s -- 7. Nixon in Moscow : appliances, affluence, and Americanism -- Afterword -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Added Title As seen on television.
ISBN 0674048822 (acid-free paper) : $24.95
9780674048829 (acid-free paper)
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