Domesticating the airwaves [[electronic resource] ] : broadcasting, domesticity and femininity / / Maggie Andrews
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Andrews Maggie
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| Titolo: |
Domesticating the airwaves [[electronic resource] ] : broadcasting, domesticity and femininity / / Maggie Andrews
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302.2340820904 |
| Soggetto topico: | Television broadcasting - United States |
| Television and women - United States | |
| Women television viewers - United States | |
| Femininity - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | _GoBack; _GoBack; _GoBack; _GoBack; _GoBack; _GoBack; aff-1; Contents; IIllustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Domesticating the airwaves; Chapter Two; Early domestic goddesses: competing discourses of domestic expertise; Chapter Three; The gardener and the chef: broadcasting celebrities - 1930s style; Chapter Four; Domesticity under fire: fractured and extended; Chapter Five; From austerity to consumer wonderland: post-war domesticities; Chapter Six; Broadening domestic 'realities': soaps, documentaries and working-class domesticities in the 1960s and 1970s |
| Chapter SevenThe personal becomes political: domesticity in turmoil and as a political project; Chapter Eight; Still contesting and idealizing domesticity; Afterword: an uncertain future for domesticity and broadcast media; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Using case studies and analytical overviews this book explores the relationship between broadcasting and the intimate domestic sphere into which it is broadcast. It focuses on the period from the 1920s, when broadcasting was established in the UK, to the present day when both domesticity and broadcasting have become areas of anxiety and contestation. The entry of the wireless, and later television, into the home changed men and womens experience of domesticity, offering education and reducing isolation. But broadcasting did not merely change domestic leisure patterns, it actively intervened in |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Domesticating the airwaves |
| ISBN: | 1-4411-0555-7 |
| 1-280-12377-X | |
| 9786613527639 | |
| 1-4411-3986-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819298403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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