Lynn Spigel
Auteur de Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
A propos de l'auteur
Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Chair and Professor of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University.
Œuvres de Lynn Spigel
Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer (A Camera Obscura Book) (1992) 46 exemplaires
Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader (Oxford Television Studies) (1997) — Directeur de publication — 42 exemplaires
Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction (1991) — Directeur de publication — 36 exemplaires
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- female
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Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in… par Lynn Spigel
Interestingly, I've read (and very much enjoyed) most of the "Library Thing recommends..." books on this page, but I hated this book. I had to read it twice, once in college and once in graduate school. Essentially, it's a very important and good argument about the cultural role of TV in the 1950s (the stuff on the physical placement of TVs in living rooms, and the design of the sets themselves is fabulous). Despite this, I found it repetitive and really had to force myself to read it the second time. That said, it's a highly-regarded work, and it's likely that my lack of interest in the subject of TV shaped my dislike of it.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 331
- Popularité
- #71,753
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 26