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Small screens, big ideas

Small screens, big ideas

Janet Thumim

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Essay topics include cable television, soap operas, Dinah Shore and her Chevrolet show, Milton Berle and other Jewish comedians,"This is Your Life," the BBC, "The Quatermass Experiment" and other British television shows. General themes are gender, ethnicity, sexuality and wholesomeness for postwar television audiences in the United States and England.

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OL Work ID
OL19669223W

Subjects

Social aspectsTelevisionHistoryTelevision broadcasting, historyTelevision broadcasting, social aspectsTélévisionHistoireAspect social

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