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Lecture Guide: TV “The American Dream?”

 

Appearances Might be Deceiving…

 

 

FACTS ABOUT TV IN THE 1950S:

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• Within these rooms the TV was the ___________ piece of furniture

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POPULAR GENRES:

• Variety Shows

• Cartoons

• Westerns

• Family Sitcoms

 

 

 

FAMILY SITCOMS:

      A refection or refraction of family life?

        

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• ______________________________ - perfect home, perfect children, perfect father, mother, neighborhoods, neighbors, jobs, marriages.

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Most Americans viewed TV as a _________________ of reality – but _____________________?

 

 

“Family Sitcoms dramatized the artifice of gender roles and uniformity in postwar life”

 

 

 

 

 

APPEARANCES:

• Men

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• Women

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REALITY:

• 25% - 30% of __________________ worked.

• ________ married women worked than single women

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However, American pop culture refused to acknowledge women as anything but _________________ and _______________.