Lynn Spigel is Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern University. She is the author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.

“Lynn Spigel’s Welcome to the Dreamhouse is quite simply superb. It is original, impeccably researched, dazzlingly intelligent, and prickling with humor.”-Julie D’Acci, author of Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey “Spigel possesses one of the few indispensable voices in American cultural studies. She sees the complexity of popular culture where others have tended to see formula and repetition. This is a perfect anthology, one that reflects the intellectual growth of an important thinker and at the same time represents a coherent argument about an important topic.”-Henry Jenkins, author of From Barbie to Mortal Combat

• Introduction Part I. TV Households 1. The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America 2. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel Part II. White Flight 3. From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sit-Com Part III. Baby Boom Kids 5. Seducing the Innocent: Television and Childhood in Postwar America 6. Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips Part IV. Living Room to Gallery 7. High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art, 1950–1970 8. Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System Part V. Rewind and Fast Forward 9. From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women’s Memories and Television Reruns 10. Yesterday’s Future, Tomorrow’s Home Index

Lynn Spigel is Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern University. She is the author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.

“Lynn Spigel’s Welcome to the Dreamhouse is quite simply superb. It is original, impeccably researched, dazzlingly intelligent, and prickling with humor.”-Julie D’Acci, author of Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey “Spigel possesses one of the few indispensable voices in American cultural studies. She sees the complexity of popular culture where others have tended to see formula and repetition. This is a perfect anthology, one that reflects the intellectual growth of an important thinker and at the same time represents a coherent argument about an important topic.”-Henry Jenkins, author of From Barbie to Mortal Combat

• Introduction Part I. TV Households 1. The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America 2. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel Part II. White Flight 3. From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sit-Com Part III. Baby Boom Kids 5. Seducing the Innocent: Television and Childhood in Postwar America 6. Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips Part IV. Living Room to Gallery 7. High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art, 1950–1970 8. Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System Part V. Rewind and Fast Forward 9. From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women’s Memories and Television Reruns 10. Yesterday’s Future, Tomorrow’s Home Index

Lynn Spigel is Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern University. She is the author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.

“Lynn Spigel’s Welcome to the Dreamhouse is quite simply superb. It is original, impeccably researched, dazzlingly intelligent, and prickling with humor.”-Julie D’Acci, author of Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney and Lacey “Spigel possesses one of the few indispensable voices in American cultural studies. She sees the complexity of popular culture where others have tended to see formula and repetition. This is a perfect anthology, one that reflects the intellectual growth of an important thinker and at the same time represents a coherent argument about an important topic.”-Henry Jenkins, author of From Barbie to Mortal Combat

• Introduction Part I. TV Households 1. The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America 2. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel Part II. White Flight 3. From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sit-Com Part III. Baby Boom Kids 5. Seducing the Innocent: Television and Childhood in Postwar America 6. Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips Part IV. Living Room to Gallery 7. High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art, 1950–1970 8. Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System Part V. Rewind and Fast Forward 9. From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women’s Memories and Television Reruns 10. Yesterday’s Future, Tomorrow’s Home Index