Spigel Lynn Spigel

TV Snapshots (eBook, PDF)

An Archive of Everyday Life

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Produktbeschreibung

In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today's selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women used the TV set as a backdrop for fashion and glamour poses; people dressed in drag in front of the screen; and in pinup poses, people even turned the TV setting into a space for erotic display. While the television industry promoted on-screen images of white nuclear families in suburban homes, the snapshots depict a broad range of people across racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds that do not always conform to the reigning middle-class nuclear family ideal. Showing how the television set became a central presence in the home that exceeded its mass entertainment function, Spigel highlights how TV snapshots complicate understandings of the significance of television in everyday life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478022893
• Artikelnr.: 66283041

Autorenporträt

Lynn Spigel

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Companion Technologies  1
1. TV Portraits: Picturing Families and Household Things  25
2. TV Performers: A Theater of Everyday Life  72
3. TV Dress-Up: Fashion Poses and Everyday Glamour  121
4. TV Pinups: Sex and the Single TV  175
5. TV Memories: Snapshots in Digital Times  222
Conclusion: Hard Stop  255
Notes  263
Bibliography  289
Index  307