"Lynn Spigel's "Welcome to the Dreamhouse "is quite simply superb. It is original, impeccably researched, dazzlingly intelligent, and prickling with humor."--Julie D'Acci, author of "Defining Women: Television and the Case of "Cagney and Lacey

Introduction
Part I. TV Households
1. The Suburban Home Companion: Television and the Neighborhood Ideal in Postwar America
2. Portable TV: Studies in Domestic Space Travel
Part II. White Flight
3. From Domestic Space to Outer Space: The 1960s Fantastic Family Sit-Com
Part III. Baby Boom Kids
5. Seducing the Innocent: Television and Childhood in Postwar America
6. Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips
Part IV. Living Room to Gallery
7. High Culture in Low Places: Television and Modern Art, 1950–1970
8. Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System
Part V. Rewind and Fast Forward
9. From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women’s Memories and Television Reruns
10. Yesterday’s Future, Tomorrow’s Home
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Index

Lynn Spigel is Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern University. She is the author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America.