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It analyzes domestic viewing practices, media’s influence on family fantasy, and responses from African American audiences to NASA narratives. It further explores childhood, innocence, and geopolitics in children’s programming, then shifts to “high culture” interfaces with television and modern art, and finally considers women’s memory through reruns and evolving representations.","Television and Caliural Powerlidited by I ynn Spigel  \nWelcome to the  \n冰  \nPopular Media and Postwar Suburbs  \nIymnspigel  \nContents  \nAcknowledgmcnts ix  \nIntroduction 1  \nPart 1:TVHousebolds  \nThe Suburban HomeCompanion:Television and theNeighborhood Ideal in Postwar Ancrica 31  \nPortableT'V:Studics in Domestic Spacc Travei 60  \nPart 1l:White Fligbt  \nFrom Domestic Spacc to Outer Space:The 196os FanasticFanily Sitcom 107  \nOuter Space and Inner Cities:African American Responsesto NASA 141  \nPart I1I:Baby Boom Kids  \nSeducing thc Innocent:Childhood and Television in PostWarAmerica 185  \nlnoctnce Ahroad:The Gieopolitics of Childhood in Postw:arKid Strips 219  \n# Part IV:Living Room to Giallery\n\nHigh Culture in Low Places:Television and ModernArt,1950-19702.65  \nBarbics without Kcn:Femininity,Feninism,and the ArrCnlture System 310  \n# Part V:Rewind and Fast Forward\n\nFrom the Dark Ages to the Gioldcn Age:Women's Memories and Television Reruns 35.  \nYesterday's Future,Tomorrow's Homc 381  \nIndey 409  \nAcknowledgments  \n*Thank you to my friends and colleagues for their wisdom and gance.(harlotte Brunsdon,Julie D'Acci,Michael Curtin,and GecLipsitz read various essays and inspired me with their own work.dcar friends Margic Solovay and Chris Berry always descrve very spethanks.Victoria Johnson,Ama Everctt,Steven Classen,Chris Ander.Ellen Seiter,David Morley,Horace Newcomb,Moya Luckett,Const;Penley,Ienry Jenkins,Herman(iray,Nick Browne,Jan Olsson,NWhite,William Forman,and Mary Beth Haralovich all offered muchpreciated support.I'm also grateful to usc fricnds and colleagues MSturken,Dana Polan,Tania Modleski,Marsha Kinder,Barbara CorMichael Renov,Tara McPherson,Alison Irope,and Doug Thomasthcir icdeas and collaboration over the ycars.HeatherOshornc,lnniston,and Liza Trevino provided valuable hclp with rescarch.I angrateful to the people at the Wisconsin Center Siate Hlistorical Archithe Johu litzgerald Kennedy Library,the USC Doheny Cinema L.ibrthe UC1A Filn and Television Archive,the Museum of TclevisionRadio,the Smithsonia Institution,and the Musctum of ModernLibrary and Archive.Finally,l am especially thankful to JetfreySconcChis kindness,intelligence,and hunor while I put this collection togc  \n310  \nBarbies without Ken:Femininity.Feminism.(nd the Art-Culture System  \nlt imust be remembered that the toy moved late to the rsery,thafrom the beginning it was adults who made toys,iand not only withrcgard to their other invention,rhe child.The fashion doll,forexample,was the plaything of :adult womem bcforc it was theplaything of the child.  \nStsan Stewart,(n Longing!  \nMattel cxecutire (addressing a group of Barbic doll collectors):Ilow  \nold do vou think the average 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