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What systems were originally used? |
Baird & Marconi E.M.I. Marconi eventually used and Barid dropped after three months. Marconi system more flexible, mobile and easier to use. |
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Negative/Fears of television |
- 'Meet Mr Lucifer', the disasters that become three successive families after owning a television set. - Ambient role in home/family life (Father Knows Best) - 'the wife scarcely knows where the kitchen is... fathers briefcase lies unopened in the foyer' (TV critics in 'fifties television'). - Television seen as a substitute for community life and social relations. - Communist manipulate in entertainment 'Red Channels; - TV as Haunted Media - 'television looking back'. Supernatural power that might wreck havoc on the public, |
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Opinions on television |
- Debate on whether good or bad. - Family harmony and discord - changing the roles of gender and sexual identity - Changing family space "togetherness through separation". - 'Television is something the average family has just about decided it can't do without' - National Business, 1947. |
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Positive/Comforts of television |
- Ownership doubled at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. - Suburban home ideal of post war America - 'Window on the world' - Ideal companion' - Merging interests of public and private. |
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Spigel: Negative |
- Television had devastating effects on family relationships and functioning of the household. - People feared how it would affect romantic couples - Eye strain? // Cancer? - People were using it for isolation after WW2, to escape the anxieties and uncertainties of public life. - Status as Television - eyesore and de-stabilize unities of interior décor - yet arguments stating TV sets were class status - however shouldn't be seen from the outside, television should be a one-way view which links in with 'being seen by television'. - Undermined masculine position of power - deteriorated in domestic space. - Women ignored by husbands as TV became 'other woman'. |
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Spigel: Positivie |
- Utopian statements idealised new medium as ultimate expression of technological and social progress. - 'Perfect View' - front seats - and how to make visually appealing in woman's home magazines. |
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Spigel: Spacial Ambiguity |
- 1950's witnessed return to Victorian cult of domesticity which predicated on division between public and private spheres - Spigel orders it is not this clean cut. - Spigel: new meaning of 'public sphere' - new identity for first time buyer, seen as 'good life' and were now 'private landowners'. - Homes did not exclude the outside world, but incorporated it. 'illusion of spaciousness' make some as though it included the public domain. - Television often figure as ultimate expression of progress concerning man's ability to conquer domestic space - window to the world and the illusion of the world into the home. - Women's problem of social confinement in the home, domestic isolation. |
