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Between 1948 and 1955 nearly two thirds of all american families bought a television set and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched.
Television and the family ideal in postwar america a cultural history of ameri can television that focuses on discourses surrounding television s installation in the domestic sphere following world war ii.
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