Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War AmericaPrime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives. |
Contents
Introduction Cultural Analysis and Social Change | 1 |
Television as Family The Episodic Series 19461969 | 17 |
PrimeTime Relevance Television Entertainment Programming in the 1970s | 42 |
Trouble at Home Televisions Changing Families 19701980 | 65 |
All in the WorkFamily Television Families in Workplace Settings | 110 |
Family Television Then and Now | 150 |
Notes | 169 |
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