This thesis examines how the television set was domesticated in Britain, from the beginning of the television service in 1936, to the introduction of colour in the 1970s. The thesis centres on the issue of television’s domestic consumption, through the consideration of television as a physical object that resides in the home, not just as a disseminator of information into the home. The thesis analyses source materials which depict the idealised versions of television domestication, such as lifestyle magazines, advertisements, marketing material, and exhibitions. These help us to understand the expectations that consumers had about television and its place in their homes. In addition, it uses two Mass Observation (MO) directives which pr...
Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growin...
This book, the first academic study of its kind, uncovers a history of the child television audience...
The modern kitchen was emblematic of a cold war obsession with household consumer durables as a meas...
This thesis examines how the television set was domesticated in Britain, from the beginning of the t...
This thesis explores the expansion of British television in the 1950s and 1960s and its relationship...
The arrival of television into the British home in the post-war period coincided with rising standar...
"This article explores how home is made and re-made on national television screens by reference to n...
The thesis investigates the development of programmes about the cinema on British television during ...
The television revolution: television as a domestic object in socialist Eastern Europ
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it ac...
This thesis assesses attitudes towards, and expectations of, British television between 1925 and 193...
The article examines early television sets in Finland as material objects manufactured and consumed ...
Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growin...
This book, the first academic study of its kind, uncovers a history of the child television audience...
The modern kitchen was emblematic of a cold war obsession with household consumer durables as a meas...
This thesis examines how the television set was domesticated in Britain, from the beginning of the t...
This thesis explores the expansion of British television in the 1950s and 1960s and its relationship...
The arrival of television into the British home in the post-war period coincided with rising standar...
"This article explores how home is made and re-made on national television screens by reference to n...
The thesis investigates the development of programmes about the cinema on British television during ...
The television revolution: television as a domestic object in socialist Eastern Europ
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it ac...
This thesis assesses attitudes towards, and expectations of, British television between 1925 and 193...
The article examines early television sets in Finland as material objects manufactured and consumed ...
Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growin...
This book, the first academic study of its kind, uncovers a history of the child television audience...
The modern kitchen was emblematic of a cold war obsession with household consumer durables as a meas...