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Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture

Autor Molly A. Schneider
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 iul 2024
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781477329276
ISBN-10: 1477329277
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 5 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Molly A. Schneider is an assistant professor of cinema and television arts at Columbia College Chicago.

Cuprins

  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Gold Dust in/on the Air
  • 1. Television’s Tortured Misfits: Method Acting and the “Slice-of-Life” Anthology
  • 2. Mythologies of Belonging: Conformity and Neighbor Panic
  • 3. A Tired Nonconformist: Censorship and Citizen Serling
  • 4. A Residue of Ugliness: Traumas and Fantasies of War
  • 5. A Last Gasp: Conclusions
  • Epilogue: Anthologies and the Archive
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

As the first comprehensive academic monograph on the television anthology, Gold Dust on the Air provides a model of media-focused cultural history based on in-depth archival research...[The book's] dual focus on culture and industry as interdependent, mutually determining forces is one of [its] main strengths.

This engaging analysis of programs like 'Playhouse 90' and 'Studio One' may inspire readers to track down these influential anthology series.

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How mid-century television anthologies reflected and shaped US values and identities.