Name: Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture (en Inglés)
SKU: 58720883
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Author: Schneider, Molly A.
ISBN: 9781477329276

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Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

Molly A. Schneider

Editorial

University of Texas Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781477329276

Categorías

Televisión
Historia de las artes escénicas

Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture (en Inglés)

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How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, anthology dramas presented "quality" television programming in weekly stand-alone television plays meant to entertain and provide cultural uplift to American society. Programs such as Playhouse 90, Studio One, and The Twilight Zone became important emblems of American creative potential on television. But their propensity for addressing matters of major social concern also meant that they often courted controversy. Although the anthology's tenure would be brief, its importance in the television landscape would be great, and the ways the format negotiated ideas about "Americanness" at midcentury would be a crucial facet of its significance. In Gold Dust on the Air, Molly Schneider traces a cultural history of the "Golden Age" anthology, addressing topics such as the format's association with Method acting and debates about "authentic" American experience, its engagement with ideas about "conformity" in the context of Cold War pressures, and its depictions of war in a medium sponsored by defense contractors. Drawing on archival research, deep textual examination, and scholarship on both television history and broader American culture, Schneider posits the anthology series as a site of struggle over national meaning.