Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television

by Nina C. Leibman

Book Overview

With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has achieved near mythological status as a model of what real families "ought" to be. Yet feature films of the period often portrayed families in trouble, with parents and children in conflict over appropriate values and behaviors. Why were these representations of family apparently so far apart?

Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292746849
• ISBN13: 9780292746848
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"