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- catalog abstract "The cake in kitchen, the house in the suburbs, Mamie in her mink stole, Elvis in his pink Cadillac. It was America in the 1950s, and the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked - and how we looked - mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. This book captures a visual culture reflecting and reflected in the powerful new medium of television. Looking closely at a number of celebrated instances in which the principles of design dominated the public arena and captivated the popular imagination, Karal Ann Marling gives us a vivid picture of the taste and sensibility of the postwar era. From Walt Disney's Wednesday night TV show, the leap was easy to his theme park, where the wildly popular TV characters could be seen firsthand, and Marling conducts us through this heady concoction of real life and fantasy. Next she takes us into the picture-perfect world of Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book of 1950, the runaway bestseller of the decade, and shows us how the look of food, culminating in the TV Dinner, attained paramount importance. From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for with a gaze newly trained by TV. A study in style, in material culture, in art history at eye level, her book shows us as never before those artful everyday objects that stood for American life in the 1950s, as seen on TV.".
- catalog alternative "As seen on television.".
- catalog contributor b6687026.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 1945-1970.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "From Walt Disney's Wednesday night TV show, the leap was easy to his theme park, where the wildly popular TV characters could be seen firsthand, and Marling conducts us through this heady concoction of real life and fantasy. Next she takes us into the picture-perfect world of Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book of 1950, the runaway bestseller of the decade, and shows us how the look of food, culminating in the TV Dinner, attained paramount importance.".
- catalog description "From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for with a gaze newly trained by TV. A study in style, in material culture, in art history at eye level, her book shows us as never before those artful everyday objects that stood for American life in the 1950s, as seen on TV.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318) and index.".
- catalog description "Looking closely at a number of celebrated instances in which the principles of design dominated the public arena and captivated the popular imagination, Karal Ann Marling gives us a vivid picture of the taste and sensibility of the postwar era.".
- catalog description "Mamie Eisenhower's new look -- Hyphenated culture : painting by numbers in the new age of leisure -- Disneyland, 1955 : the place that was also a TV show -- Autoeroticism : America's love affair with the car in the television age -- When Elvis cut his hair : the meaning of mobility -- Betty Crocker's picture cook book : the aesthetics of food in the 1950s -- Nixon in Moscow : appliances, affluence, and Americanism.".
- catalog description "The cake in kitchen, the house in the suburbs, Mamie in her mink stole, Elvis in his pink Cadillac. It was America in the 1950s, and the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked - and how we looked - mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. This book captures a visual culture reflecting and reflected in the powerful new medium of television.".
- catalog extent "328 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "As seen on TV.".
- catalog identifier "0674048822 (acid-free paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "As seen on TV.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "As seen on TV.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 1945-1970.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "973.92 20".
- catalog subject "E169.02 .M3534 1994".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Television broadcasting Social aspects United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mamie Eisenhower's new look -- Hyphenated culture : painting by numbers in the new age of leisure -- Disneyland, 1955 : the place that was also a TV show -- Autoeroticism : America's love affair with the car in the television age -- When Elvis cut his hair : the meaning of mobility -- Betty Crocker's picture cook book : the aesthetics of food in the 1950s -- Nixon in Moscow : appliances, affluence, and Americanism.".
- catalog title "As seen on TV : the visual culture of everyday life in the 1950s / Karal Ann Marling.".
- catalog title "As seen on television.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".