Lynn Spigel explores historical snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s, showing how TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Companion Technologies 1
1. TV Portraits: Picturing Families and Household Things 25
2. TV Performers: A Theater of Everyday Life 72
3. TV Dress-Up: Fashion Poses and Everyday Glamour 121
4. TV Pinups: Sex and the Single TV 175
5. TV Memories: Snapshots in Digital Times 222
Conclusion: Hard Stop 255
Notes 263
Bibliography 289
Index 307
