TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life
TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Drawing on her…
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TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life
In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women used the TV set as a backdrop for fashion and glamour poses; people dressed in drag in front of the screen; and, in pinup poses, people even turned the TV setting into a space for erotic display. Like today's selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture.
Showing how the television set became While the TV industry promoted on-screen images of white nuclear families in suburban homes, the snapshots depict a broad range of people across racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds that do not always conform to the reigning middle-class nuclear family ideal.
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