Small screens, big ideas : television in the 1950s /: television in the 1950s. (2002)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Small screens, big ideas : television in the 1950s /: television in the 1950s. (2002)
- Main Title:
- Small screens, big ideas : television in the 1950s
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Janet Thumim.
- Other Names:
- Thumim, Janet, 1945-
- Contents:
- I've seen this one before : the construction of 'classic TV' on cable television / Derek Kompare -- Selling soap : post-war television soap opera and the American housewife / Kristen Hatch -- Study of a mad housewife : psychiatric discourse, the suburban home and the case of Gracie Allen / Allison McCracken -- Lessons from Uncle Miltie : ethnic masculinity and early television's vaudeo star / Susan Murray -- Nothin' could be finah : The Dinah Shore Chevy show / Lola Clare Bratten -- Re-made for television : Hedy Lamarr's post-war star textuality / Diane Negra -- Maureen O'Hara's 'Confidential' life : recycling stars through gossip and moral biography / Mary Desjardins -- Matinee theater : difference, compromise and the 1950s daytime audience / Matthew Murray -- The BBC and the birth of The Wednesday Play, 1962-66 : institutional containment versus 'agitational contemporaneity' / Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh -- Mystery and imagination : anatomy of a Gothic anthology series / Helen Wheatley -- Exploiting the intimate screen : The quartermass experiment, fantasy and the aesthetic potential of early television drama / Catherine Johnson -- This week in 1956 : the introduction of current affairs on ITV / Victoria Wegg-Prosser -- Women at work : popular drama on British television c1955-60 / Janet Thumim -- Crackint open the set : television repair and tinkering with gender, 1949-1955 / Lisa Parks.
- Publisher Details:
- London New York : I.B. Tauris
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (viii, 262 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 791.4509045
Television -- History -- 20th century
Television -- Social aspects
Télévision -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
Télévision -- Aspect social
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference
Television
Television -- Social aspects
Televisieprogramma's
Sociale aspecten
Fernsehen
Electronic books
History
Aufsatzsammlung
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 1417521023
9781417521029
9780857716880
0857716883
1282529455
9781282529458 - Related ISBNs:
- 1860646824
9781860646829
1860646832
9781860646836 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-253) and indexes.
Note: Print version record. - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.117480
- Ingest File:
- 01_057.xml