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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1989.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520911246
  • 0520911245
  • 0585178402
  • 9780585178400
  • 1282758667
  • 9781282758667
  • 9786612758669
  • 661275866X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prime-time families.DDC classification:
  • 302.23/45/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.F33 T39 1989eb
Online resources:
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.
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Based on the author's thesis (Brandeis University).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.

Print version record.

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.

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.

In English.

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