Lynn Spigel: 13 books
Welcome to the Dreamhouse
Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
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....
Make Room for TV
Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched.
In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over...
Watching Jim Crow
The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955–1969
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the Today Show content was “network news . . . represent[ing] the views of the northern press.” This was only one part of a larger...
Kids Rule!
Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting original programs such as Dora the Explorer,...
Groove Tube
Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2001
Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune—or even willfully blind—to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time—such...
by Lynn Spigel, Graeme Turner, Julian Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture. Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user,...
Interrogating Postfeminism
Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television...
Production Culture
Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles–based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many “below-the-line” laborers, including gaffers, editors,...
Wallowing in Sex
The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat’s Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial television...
Tuning Out Blackness
Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the...
Makeover TV
Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
In 2004, roughly 25 makeover-themed reality shows aired on U.S. television. By 2009, there were more than 250, from What Not to Wear and The Biggest Loser to Dog Whisperer and Pimp My Ride. In Makeover TV, Brenda R. Weber argues that whether depicting transformations of bodies, trucks, finances, relationships,...
Seeing Through the Eighties
Television and Reaganism
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1995
The 1980s saw the rise of Ronald Reagan and the New Right in American politics, the popularity of programs such as thirtysomething and Dynasty on network television, and the increasingly widespread use of VCRs, cable TV, and remote control in American living rooms. In Seeing Through the Eighties,...
Mobile Cultures
New Media in Queer Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2003
Mobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media—fax machines, mobile phones, the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers,...