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Electronic Hearth : Creating an American Television Culture

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992

1 Online-Ressource (262 p)

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Print version: Tichi, Cecelia : Electronic Hearth : Creating an American Television Culture. - Oxford : Oxford University Press,c1992

978-0-19-535998-5 (e-book)

978-0-19-506549-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-0-19-535998-5 ( : 42.18 (NL),63.27 (UA),42.18 (1U))

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Television and families ; United States ; Television and children ; United States ; Television broadcasting ; Social aspects ; United States ; Television ; Psychological aspects ; Electronic books

We all talk about the ""tube"" or ""box,"" as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an environment--a pervasive screen-world that saturates almost every aspect of modern life. In Electronic Hearth, she looks at how that environment evolved, and how it, in turn, has shaped the American experience. Tichi explores almost fifty years of writing about television--in novels, cartoons, journalism, advertising, and critical books and articles--to define the role of television in the American consciousness. She ex

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Contents -- Television Environment-A Preface -- 1. Introduction-Phasing In -- 2. Electronic Hearth -- 3. Peep Show, Private Sector -- 4. Leisure, Labor, and the La-Z-Boy -- 5. Drugs, Backtalk, and Teleconsciousness -- 6. Certification-As Seen on TV -- 7. Videoportraits and Authority -- 8. Two Cultures and the Battle by the Books -- 9. The Child-A Television Allegory -- 10. Comics, Movies, Music, Stories, Art, TV-on-TV, Etc. -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W