Small screens, big ideas : television in the 1950s /: television in the 1950s. (2002)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.