As Seen on TV

The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s

Karal Ann Marling

    Prologue

    1.Namie Eisenhower's New Look

    2.Hyphenated Culture: Painting by Numbers in the New Age of Leisure

    3.Disneyland, 1955: The Place That Was Also a TV Show

    4.Autoeroticism: America's Love Affair with the Car in the Television Age

    5.When Elvis Cut His Hair: The Meaning of Mobility

    6.Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book: The Aesthetics of food in the 1950s

    7.Nixon in Moscow: Appliances, Affluence, and Americanism

    Afterword

    Notes

    Illustration Credits

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: As Seen on TV
  • A photo of the author

Karal Ann Marling is Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.