Invasion of the mind snatchers television's conquest of America in the fifties /
How the baby boomers learned about the world in their most formative years.
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Format: | Online Book |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
c2010.
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Access: | Online version |
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- Introduction : Philo T. Farnsworth's discontent
- The medium. Damning the "theenk"
- The new American family
- The hula hoop and the bomb
- Invisible doughnuts and coonskins caps
- Really big shows
- The competition
- The messages. The first senator
- The second senator
- The third senator
- Advertising for President
- The mystic knights of the sea
- "The technological equivalent of a crucifix"
- Sexless objects
- The constant parade
- Serving the sky chief
- The Black Sox of the airwaves
- Epilogue.