Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs

by Lynn Spigel

Book Overview

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 range of commercial objects and phenomena, from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326965
• ISBN13: 9780822326960
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"