Lynn Spigel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Spigel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Spigel |
| SIGNATURE | SPIGEL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 665 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Telehospitality
This essay explores computer profiling and surveillance systems developed by the hospitality industry in the 1960s and 1970s. Hotels and motels partnered with computer corporations and were among the first industries to create computer networks and management systems, using them for practical applications like reservations as well as to police guests and monitor hotel labor. However, there is no sustained history of the hospitality industry's rol…
TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life
Seducing the Innocent: Childhood and Television in Postwar America
Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sitcom
Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles-based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many "below-the-line" laborers, including gaffers, editors, and camera operators. Caldwell analyzes the narratives and rituals through which workers make sense of their labor and critique the film and TV industry…
TV and the Spaces of Everyday Life
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television …
Postfeminist nostalgia for a prefeminist future
Journal Article Postfeminist nostalgia for a prefeminist future Get access Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 2013, Pages 270–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjt017 Published: 01 June 2013
Roundtable. Writing (Media) History in the Age of Audio-Visual and Digital Media
Object Lessons for the Media Home: From Storagewall to Invisible Design
This essay explores the history of George Nelson’s Storagewall in relation to a genealogy of invisible design, up through the computer. It explores the way the Storagewall served to hide media machines and also to organize the gendered relations of labor and leisure in media homes of postwar America
Television As Digital Media
Warhol's Everyday TV
My TV Studies . . . Now Playing on a You Tube Site Near You
Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger . Broadly defined, "postfeminism" encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the…
Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production
This article analyzes recent architectural and product designs for computerized smart homes. The smart home is a sentient space where human subjects and domestic objects speak to one another via intelligent agents and internet connections. This article explores the industrial logic behind this new vision of home (i.e. the links between the hi-tech industry and the building/home appliance industries) and examines the mode of subjectivity the smart…
Television after TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition
Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11
This paper looks at the U.S. television industry's reaction to 9/11, focusing on the way the industry returned to the normal schedule of entertainment TV genres. In the immediate weeks following 9/11, industry trade journals and television/film executives continually expressed their sense that U.S. culture would change forever after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Industry executives worried that violence and light enterta…
Theorizing the Bachelorette: "Waves" of Feminist Media Studies
Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia
Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue 1 I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, Globalization, and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom Boellstorff 21 Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland 52 Guided Fan Fiction: Western Readings of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska Sabucco 70 Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace…
Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
In 1992 Lynn Spigel, professor of cinema and television at the University of Southern California, published a splendid, innovative history of television, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. What made the book refreshingly welcome was its contrast to the histories of television written up to that point that concentrated pretty much on the production side of the medium: economic organization, the struggle for contr…
Media homes: Then and now
This article synthesizes Spigel’s research on the introduction of television and new technologies into the home. It looks at changing conceptions of ‘media households’ over the course of the last 50 years. The ‘home theater’ represents the media house of the 1950s; the ‘mobile home’ corresponds to the introduction of portable television in the 1960s; and the ‘smart home’ is the contemporary model of digital domesticity. The article considers how …
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television …
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
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. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual o…
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger . Broadly defined, "postfeminism" encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the…
Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia
Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue 1 I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, Globalization, and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom Boellstorff 21 Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland 52 Guided Fan Fiction: Western Readings of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska Sabucco 70 Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace…
Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11
This paper looks at the U.S. television industry's reaction to 9/11, focusing on the way the industry returned to the normal schedule of entertainment TV genres. In the immediate weeks following 9/11, industry trade journals and television/film executives continually expressed their sense that U.S. culture would change forever after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Industry executives worried that violence and light enterta…
Media homes: Then and now
This article synthesizes Spigel’s research on the introduction of television and new technologies into the home. It looks at changing conceptions of ‘media households’ over the course of the last 50 years. The ‘home theater’ represents the media house of the 1950s; the ‘mobile home’ corresponds to the introduction of portable television in the 1960s; and the ‘smart home’ is the contemporary model of digital domesticity. The article considers how …
Theorizing the Bachelorette: "Waves" of Feminist Media Studies
Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles-based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many "below-the-line" laborers, including gaffers, editors, and camera operators. Caldwell analyzes the narratives and rituals through which workers make sense of their labor and critique the film and TV industry…
Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production
This article analyzes recent architectural and product designs for computerized smart homes. The smart home is a sentient space where human subjects and domestic objects speak to one another via intelligent agents and internet connections. This article explores the industrial logic behind this new vision of home (i.e. the links between the hi-tech industry and the building/home appliance industries) and examines the mode of subjectivity the smart…
From the dark ages to the golden age: Women's memories and television reruns
Journal Article From the dark ages to the golden age: women's memories and television reruns Get access Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 1995, Pages 16–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.1.16 Published: 01 March 1995
Postfeminist nostalgia for a prefeminist future
Journal Article Postfeminist nostalgia for a prefeminist future Get access Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 54, Issue 2, Summer 2013, Pages 270–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjt017 Published: 01 June 2013
Communicating With the Dead: Elvis as Medium
Research Article| May 01 1990 Communicating With the Dead: Elvis as Medium Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 176–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-2_23-176 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lynn Spigel; Communicating With the Dead: Elvis as Medium. Camera Obscura 1 May 1990; 8 (2 (23)): 176–205. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948–1955
Research Article| January 01 1988 Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948–1955 Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 9–46. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-1_16-9 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lynn Spigel; Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Dom…
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television …
La télévision dans le cercle de famille
La télévision dans le cercle de famille. À partir d'un matériel d'articles de presse (presse de télévision, magazines féminins et presse sur la maison), cet article, second chapitre du livre Make room for TV, Television and the Family Ideal in Post-war America, montre comment, en l'espace d'une dizaine d'années dans les années 50, la télévision est devenue la figure centrale dans la représentation de la famille. La télévision offre dans ces année…
Life for Beginners
Receptive Women: Consuming and Contesting TV Culture
A Symposium on Popular Culture and Political Correctness
Andrew Ross, Manthia Diawara, Alexander Doty, Wahneema Lubiano, Tricia Rose, Ella Shohat, Lynn Spigel, Robert Stam, Michele Wallace, A Symposium on Popular Culture and Political Correctness, Social Text, No. 36 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 1-39
Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women
Other| September 01 1985 Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 215–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-1-2_13-14-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lynn Spigel; Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modle…
Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women
Other| September 01 1985 Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 215–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-1-2_13-14-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lynn Spigel; Detours in the Search For Tomorrow: Tania Modle…
Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948–1955
Research Article| January 01 1988 Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Domestic Space, 1948–1955 Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 9–46. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-1_16-9 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lynn Spigel; Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourses on Television and Dom…
The domestic economy of television viewing in postwar America
This essay examines how postwar women's magazines introduced television to the American housewife. Combining methods of textual analysis with industrial and cultural history, it shows the ambivalence which characterized popular discourse on television. In particular, the study reveals the way television was imbricated in the gendered division of labor and leisure at home by exploring how the magazines deliberated on the problems television posed …
Communicating With the Dead: Elvis as Medium
Research Article| May 01 1990 Communicating With the Dead: Elvis as Medium Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (2 (23)): 176–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-2_23-176 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lynn Spigel; Communicating With the Dead: Elvis as Medium. Camera Obscura 1 May 1990; 8 (2 (23)): 176–205. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
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. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual o…
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
Receptive Women: Consuming and Contesting TV Culture
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
A Symposium on Popular Culture and Political Correctness
Andrew Ross, Manthia Diawara, Alexander Doty, Wahneema Lubiano, Tricia Rose, Ella Shohat, Lynn Spigel, Robert Stam, Michele Wallace, A Symposium on Popular Culture and Political Correctness, Social Text, No. 36 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 1-39
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
Journal Article Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. By Lynn Spigel. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. x, 236 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-226-76966-6. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-226-76967-4.) Get access Christopher Anderson Christopher Anderson Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, Septe…
From the dark ages to the golden age: Women's memories and television reruns
Journal Article From the dark ages to the golden age: women's memories and television reruns Get access Lynn Spigel Lynn Spigel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 1995, Pages 16–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.1.16 Published: 01 March 1995
Life for Beginners
Statement by Lynn Spigel, University of Southern California
Barbie's Queer Accessories
She's skinny, white, and blond. She's Barbie--an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She's also multiethnic and straight--or so says Mattel, manufacturer. But, as Barbie's Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with Barbie never seen in any commercial. Erica Rand looks at the corporate marketing strategies used to create versatile (She's a rapper! She's an astronaut! She's a bride!) but nonetheless premolded and sti…
La télévision dans le cercle de famille
La télévision dans le cercle de famille. À partir d'un matériel d'articles de presse (presse de télévision, magazines féminins et presse sur la maison), cet article, second chapitre du livre Make room for TV, Television and the Family Ideal in Post-war America, montre comment, en l'espace d'une dizaine d'années dans les années 50, la télévision est devenue la figure centrale dans la représentation de la famille. La télévision offre dans ces année…
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict
Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television …
Media homes: Then and now
This article synthesizes Spigel’s research on the introduction of television and new technologies into the home. It looks at changing conceptions of ‘media households’ over the course of the last 50 years. The ‘home theater’ represents the media house of the 1950s; the ‘mobile home’ corresponds to the introduction of portable television in the 1960s; and the ‘smart home’ is the contemporary model of digital domesticity. The article considers how …
Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
In 1992 Lynn Spigel, professor of cinema and television at the University of Southern California, published a splendid, innovative history of television, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. What made the book refreshingly welcome was its contrast to the histories of television written up to that point that concentrated pretty much on the production side of the medium: economic organization, the struggle for contr…
Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia
Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue 1 I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, Globalization, and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom Boellstorff 21 Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland 52 Guided Fan Fiction: Western Readings of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska Sabucco 70 Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace…
Television after TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition
Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11
This paper looks at the U.S. television industry's reaction to 9/11, focusing on the way the industry returned to the normal schedule of entertainment TV genres. In the immediate weeks following 9/11, industry trade journals and television/film executives continually expressed their sense that U.S. culture would change forever after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Industry executives worried that violence and light enterta…
Theorizing the Bachelorette: "Waves" of Feminist Media Studies
Designing the Smart House: Posthuman Domesticity and Conspicuous Production
This article analyzes recent architectural and product designs for computerized smart homes. The smart home is a sentient space where human subjects and domestic objects speak to one another via intelligent agents and internet connections. This article explores the industrial logic behind this new vision of home (i.e. the links between the hi-tech industry and the building/home appliance industries) and examines the mode of subjectivity the smart…
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