The Electronic Mirror: What Classic TV Tells Us About Who We Were and Who We Are (and Everything In-Between!)

CLASSIC TELEVISION: married couples in separate beds, families too perfect to be true, stories that avoid "mature" subjects, and bad hairstyles-all shown in living black-and-white. But can these programs actually teach us something about life today and how it got that way? In this collection of essays, Mitchell Hadley looks at TV during its formative years and examines how this most personal form of mass communication reflects the culture of its time, how it has fulfilled (or failed to fulf...