{"product_id":"welcome-to-the-dreamhouse-popular-media-and-postwar-suburbs-paperback-1","title":"Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLynn Spigel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWelcome to the Dreamhouse\u003c\/i\u003e 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 television and toys to comic books and magazines.\u003cbr\u003e\tThe volume considers not only how the media portrayed suburban family life, but also how both middle-class ideals and a perceived division between private and public worlds helped to shape the visual forms, storytelling practices, and reception of postwar media and consumer culture. Spigel also explores those aspects of suburban culture that media typically render invisible. She looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb. Issues of memory and nostalgia are central in the final section as Spigel considers how contemporary girls use television reruns as a source for women's history and then analyzes the current nostalgia for baby boom era family ideals that runs through contemporary images of new household media technologies.\u003cbr\u003e\tContaining some of Spigel's well-known essays on television's cultural history as well as new essays on a range of topics dealing with popular visual culture, \u003ci\u003eWelcome to the Dreamhouse\u003c\/i\u003e is important reading for students and scholars of media and communications studies, popular culture, American studies, women's studies, and sociology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynn Spigel's Welcome to the Dreamhouse \"is quite simply superb. It is original, impeccably researched, dazzlingly intelligent, and prickling with humor.\"--Julie D'Acci, author of \"Defining Women: Television and the Case of \"Cagney and Lacey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynn Spigel is Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMake Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 9.28 x 6.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47577201541341,"sku":"9780822326960","price":46.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/xSQ2EJT5P9780822326960_9b7929f1-5498-423a-b5c2-295f092bde9a.webp?v=1773475900","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/welcome-to-the-dreamhouse-popular-media-and-postwar-suburbs-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}