As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s by Karal Ann Marling

As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s

Karal Ann Marling

328 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The cake in the 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 decade of design...

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