TV Snapshots

Lynn Spigel explores historical snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s, showing how TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Companion Technologies  1
1. TV Portraits: Picturing Families and Household Things  25
2. TV Performers: A Theater of Everyday Life  72
3. TV Dress-Up: Fashion Poses and Everyday Glamour  121
4. TV Pinups: Sex and the Single TV  175
5. TV Memories: Snapshots in Digital Times  222
Conclusion: Hard Stop  255
Notes  263
Bibliography  289
Index  307