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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Turning on the Groove Tube -- 1 ''Clarabell Was the First Yippie'': The Television Generation from Howdy Doody to McLuhan -- 2 Plastic Hippies: The Counterculture on TV -- 3 ''Every Revolutionary Needs a Color TV'': The Yippies, Media Manipulation, and Talk Shows -- 4 Smothering Dissent: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and the Crisis of Authority in Entertainment Television -- 5 Negotiating the Mod: How The Mod Squad Played the Ideological Balancing Act in Prime Time -- 6 Make It Relevant: How Youth Rebellion Captured Prime Time in 1970 and 1971 -- 7 Conclusion: Legacies -- Appendix: A Groove Tube Selective Chronology of the Years 1966 to 1971 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Introduction; Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948-1955; The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows; The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs; Sit-coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker; "Is This What You Mean by Color TV?": Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in NBC's; Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey; Kate and Allie: "New Women" and the Audience's Television Archives.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reconstruction -- 1 : Broadcast Foundations -- 2 : Consuming Civil Rights -- 3 : Trouble around the Ponderosa -- 4 : Programming/Regulating Whiteness -- 5 : Blacking Out: Remembering TV and the Sixties -- 6 : Not Forgetting -- Appendix: Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Media do not simply portray places that already exist: they actually produce them. In exploring how world populations experience "place" through media technologies, the essays included here examine how media construct the meanings of home, community, work, nation, and citizenship. Tracing how media reconfigure the boundaries between public and private--and global and local--to create "electronic elsewheres," the essays investigate such spaces and identities as the avatars that women are creating on Web sites; analyze the role of satellite television in transforming Algerian neighborhoods; inquire into the roles of radio and television in Israel and India; and take a skeptical look at the purported novelty of the "new media home

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Television as Digital Media -- Convergence and Divergence -- When Digital Was New -- "Is It TV Yet?" -- Cult Television as Digital Television's Cutting Edge -- Multiplatforming Public Service -- Little Kids' TV -- "The Basis for Mutual Contempt" -- Television's Aesthetic of Efficiency -- Scripted Spaces -- Television, Interrupted -- Worker Blowback -- User-Created Content and Everyday Cultural Practice -- Architectures of Participation -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Feminist Politics and Postfeminist Culture -- 1. Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime -- 2. Mass Magazine Cover Girls: Some Reflections on Postfeminist Girls and Postfeminism's Daughters -- 3. Living a Charmed Life: The Magic of Postfeminist Sisterhood -- 4. "I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here": Adultery, Boredom, and the "Working Girl" in Twenty-First-Century American Cinema -- 5. Remapping the Resonances of Riot Grrrl: Feminisms, Postfeminisms, and "Processes" of Punk -- 6. Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence -- 7. Queer Eye for the Straight Guise: Camp, Postfeminism, and the Fab Five's Makeovers of Masculinity -- 8. What's Your Flava? Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture -- 9. The Fashion Police: Governing the Self in What Not to Wear -- 10. Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil-Rights Popular Culture -- 11. Subjects of Rejuvenation: Aging in Postfeminist Culture 277 Sadie Wearing -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index