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- Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing a Television Personality
Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing a Television Personality
Autorius : Francis Shor
Leidimo metai: 2021
Puslapių skaičius: 145
Formatas: Kieti viršeliai
This study of the content and context of Soupy’s time on WXYZ TV provides important insights into key threads of popular culture in the 1950s, including the role of television and its impact on the family and children, the influence of Cold War and consumerist ideology, Jewish-inflected humor, and jazz, especially as a component of the Detroit socio-cultural history in this period. All of these seemingly disparate topics, however, lead back to identifying the manufacturing of a television personality at a particular moment in time and in a specific location.
Beyond the network of Soupy fans, anyone interested in how a television personality achieves local and national prominence should consider reading this book. Also, those who want to understand the role of the media and popular culture in the 1950s will be enlightened, and even entertained, by this exploration of Soupy Sales’ Detroit experience.