Invasion of the mind snatchers : television's conquest of America in the fifties / by Eric Burns.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burns, Eric
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Physical Description:viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction : Philo T. Farnsworth's discontent -- The medium. Damning the "theenk" -- The new American family -- The hula hoop and the bomb -- Invisible doughnuts and coonskins caps -- Really big shows -- The competition -- The messages. The first senator -- The second senator -- The third senator -- Advertising for President -- The mystic knights of the sea -- "The technological equivalent of a crucifix" -- Sexless objects -- The constant parade -- Serving the sky chief -- The Black Sox of the airwaves -- Epilogue. 
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