{"product_id":"living-room-lectures","title":"Living Room Lectures","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family. Redefining the comedy as a family melodrama, she compares film and television depictions of familial power, gender roles, and economic attitudes. Leibman's explorations reveal how themes of guilt, deceit, manipulation, anxiety, and disfunctionality that obviously characterize such movies as \u003ci\u003eRebel without a Cause,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Summer Place,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSplendor in the Grass\u003c\/i\u003e also crop up in such TV shows as \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFather Knows Best,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeave It to Beaver,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Donna Reed Show,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Three Sons.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on interviews with many of the participants of these productions, archival documents, and trade journals, Leibman sets her discussion within a larger institutional history of 1950s film and television. Her discussions shed new light not only on the reasons for both media's near obsession with family life but also on changes in American society as it reconfigured itself in the postwar era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53533189210479,"sku":"9780292746848","price":289.02,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0292746849.jpg?v=1790374765","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/living-room-lectures","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}