Download or read book As Seen on TV written by Karal Ann Marling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked--and how we looked--mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for with a gaze newly trained by TV. A study in style, in material culture, in art history at eye level, this book shows us as never before those artful everyday objects that stood for American life in the 1950s, as seen on TV.
Download or read book As Seen on TV written by Meredith Schorr and published by Forever. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of the Hallmark Channel and Gilmore Girls will adore this delightful rom‑com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life—and love—are nothing like the TV movies. Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she’s learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it’s that she’ll find love in a small town—the kind with harvest festivals, delightful but quirky characters, and scores of delectable single dudes. So when a big-city real estate magnate targets tiny Pleasant Hollow for development, Adi knows she’s found the perfect story—one that will earn her a position at a coveted online magazine, so she can finally start adulting for real . . . and maybe even find her dream man in the process. Only Pleasant Hollow isn’t exactly “pleasant.” There’s no charming bakery, no quaint seasonal festivals, and the residents are more ambivalent than welcoming. The only upside is Finn Adams, who’s more mouthwatering than the homemade cherry pie Adi can’t seem to find—even if he does work for the company she’d hoped to bring down. Suddenly Adi has to wonder if maybe TV got it all wrong after all. But will following her heart mean losing her chance to break into the big time?
Download or read book As Seen written by Zoë Ryan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibitions have long played a crucial role in defining disciplinary histories. This fascinating volume examines the impact of eleven groundbreaking architecture and design exhibitions held between 1956 and 2006, revealing how they have shaped contemporary understanding and practice of these fields. Featuring written and photographic descriptions of the shows and illuminating essays from noted curators, scholars, critics, designers, and theorists, As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History explores the multifaceted ways in which exhibitions have reflected on contemporary dilemmas and opened up new processes and ways of working. Providing a fresh perspective on some of the most important exhibitions of the 20th century from America, Europe, and Japan, including This Is Tomorrow, Expo '70, and Massive Change, this book offers a new framework for thinking about how exhibitions can function as a transformative force in the field of architecture and design.
Download or read book America As Seen on TV written by Clara E. Rodríguez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed Book The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender in ways that many find unfair and unrealistic. What happens, then, when people who grew up on American television decide to come to the United States? What do they expect to find, and what do they actually find? In America, As Seen on TV, Clara E. Rodríguez surveys international college students and foreign nationals working or living in the US to examine the impact of American television on their views of the US and on their expectations of life in the United States. She finds that many were surprised to learn that America is racially and economically diverse, and that it is not the easy-breezy, happy endings culture portrayed in the media, but a work culture. The author also surveys US-millennials about their consumption of US TV and finds that both groups share the sense that American TV does not accurately reflect racial/ethnic relations in the US as they have experienced them. However, the groups differ on how much they think US TV has influenced their views on sex, smoking and drinking. America, As Seen on TV explores the surprising effects of TV on global viewers and the realities they and US millennials actually experience in the US.
Download or read book As Seen in Vogue written by Daniel Delis Hill and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century the ready-to-wear industry, fashion journalism, and mass-media advertising fueled one another’s success by identifying an ever-widening consumer class and fanning the desire to be fashionable. Through more than six hundred fashion ads that appeared in Vogue from the magazine’s debut in 1893 through the next ten decades, Hill documents not only this symbiosis but also an evolution in American fashion, society, and culture.In rich progression, the images document metamorphoses: from alabaster Victorian homemaker to painted flapper in just a generation, from conformist fifties mom to miniskirt-clad iconoclast only a decade later, from power-suited yuppie of the eighties to the techno self-stylist of the new millennium. In this long view of interactions that shaped much, much more than the fashion, Hill offers a comprehensive examination and resource for students and professionals in fashion and business history, popular culture, advertising, marketing, and women’s studies.
Download or read book As Seen on TV written by Lou Harry and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want thicker, fuller hair? How about a bigger bustline? A smaller waistline? Or buns of steel? Are you troubled by garden pests, unsightly stains, or an inexplicable desire to look like Richard Simmons? If you answered "Yes" to these questions, we can't really help you. But you might enjoy As Seen on TV, an illustrated history of the greatest gizmos and gadgets ever hawked on television. Here are the real-life stories of Ginsu Knives, K-Tel Records, the Clapper, the Thighmaster, NordicTrack, Time-Life Books, and dozens of other products that have broken the backs of UPS delivery men everywhere. This nostalgic tribute is jam-packed with color photography, fascinating trivia, and loads of fun. You'll learn the secrets of the perfect pitch from As Seen on TV pioneer Ron Popeil. You'll discover unauthorized uses for your favorite products (yes, Virginia, you can eat your Chia Pet sprouts). And you'll find out which of TV's biggest celebrities--from Florence Henderson to Ricardo Montalban--would agree to hawk diet aids, ab-blasters, blemish removers, and teeth whiteners. But that's not all! Purchase this incredible volume today, and we'll give you an extra chapter on the Auto Hammer, Bacon Magic, and The Craftmatic Adjustable Bed--absolutely free!
Download or read book As Seen on TV written by Lucy Grealy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether she is contemplating promiscuity or The New Testament, lamenting about what she should have said to Oprah, or learning to tango, Grealy seduces and surprises the reader at every turn. With the sheer brilliance of her imagination, Grealy leads us on delightful journeys with her wit, unflinching honesty and peerless intelligence. A completely original thinker and a remarkable writer, the author leaves the reader with plenty to ponder. As Seen On TV breaks the mould of the essay, and is destined, like the memoir that preceded it, to become a modern classic. '[Grealy is]. . . unforgettable.' -New York Times '[Grealy writes]-with exquisite prose and steely strength.' -USA Today 'Lucy Grealy manages to convince an amazing array of people that she is speaking directly to them.' -Baltimore Sun '[Grealy] overcomes-with wit, intelligence and an unconquerable spirit.' Mademoiselle
Download or read book Blitz written by Iain R. Webb and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring, unique account of 1980s fashion and culture, as seen on the deeply influential, subversive pages of BLITZ, the pioneering '80s style magazine.
Download or read book As Seen on TV written by Sarah Mlynowski and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *
Download or read book American History as Seen Through Currency written by Joanne C. Dauer and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Rudolf Steiner Press. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the Mystery cultures of ancient history, art, science and religion formed a unity that offered direction and spiritual nourishment to the broader society. Today, art, science and religion can again be reunited. However, as Marie Steiner indicates in her introduction to these lectures, these aspects of our culture need rejuvenation through fresh spiritual understanding and knowledge. Art cannot be renewed through compromise, but only by returning to the spiritual foundations of life. As she says: "The remedy lies in unlocking the wisdom of the Mysteries and presenting it to humanity in a form adapted to contemporary needs." In these wide-ranging lectures, Rudolf Steiner offers spiritual insight for the modern day into a revitalised world of the arts. His themes include: the relation of art to technology, the moral experience of the worlds of colour and music, the legendary Norwegian Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson, and the relationship between the various arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry, eurythmy and the human being.
Download or read book LIFE IT IS WHAT IT IS AS SEEN THROUGH MY EYES written by KEMY LOREE DERLAGO and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I travel across north America, operating a tractor and trailer, hauling consumer goods, I come across many events of the human spirit and so I write about what I see, hoping that it may, make you cry, make you laugh, make you think about life and how precious it is.
Download or read book Stratification of tropical forests as seen in leaf structure written by B. Rollet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the last contribution of a series of With the present book, a further gap concern studies concerned with the plant material of one ing leaf morphology and leaf venation, as well and the same area of Venezuelan Guiana. The as some structural peculiarities of physiological importance, is closed so that an exhaustive survey studies originated through a collaboration with the forest engineer Dr. B. Rollet, the FAO expert in of bark and leaf morphology and anatomy as well forest inventory who collected the material of tree as of fruit and seed structure of the plants of a barks, leaves, fruits and seeds in Venezuelan certain well-known area is herewith given. Not Guiana around the "Rio Grande", "EI Paraiso", only were hundreds of species studied, but and "EI Dorado" camps. In the first place, tree structural characteristics were related to "forest barks of about 280 species of dicotyledons stratification", i. e. to the different micro climatic belonging to 48 families were studied (family by conditions in the forest, as the height of the trees family) by Roth in separate publications which and shrubs studied was known. It is of common mainly appeared in Acta Botanica Venezuelica knowledge that in the lower forest layers, light is a and in Acta Biol6gica Venezuelica (see the bibli limiting factor, while humidity is sufficiently avail ography in Roth 1981).
Download or read book Stratification of tropical forests as seen in leaf structure written by Ingrid Roth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies presented in this volume are meant to The reason why we know relatively little about close some gaps in our knowledge of leaf anatomy inner leaf structure of trees from tropical humid of trees in tropical humid forests. Although xero forests is that the leaf anatomy of only a few species morphy of the foliage in tropical humid forests has or genera or - at the most - of an entire family has been much discussed, the statements have generally been studied in detail up to the present. Most of been based on sporadic anatomical studies of part i these studies are, therefore, of taxonomic interest. cular species or genera, a complete area of the size They cannot be included in this study because they of 155. 5 ha has certainly never been considered. do not supply the same information or amount of The present studies analyse an entire inventory of a data presented here. Anatomical studies are very time consuiming because the material first has to be given region in which the number of species and the number of individuals is very well known. This fact prepared and cut before observation can begin. In allows the elaboration of many ecological aspects, vestigation of about 50 characteristics in 230 species which was the main intention of the author.
Download or read book England as Seen by Foreigners in the Days of Elizabeth and James the First written by William Brenchley Rye and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book England as Seen by Foreigners in the Days of Elizabeth James the First written by William Brenchley Rye and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World as Seen Under the Lens of a Scientist written by Dr. B. Vithal Shetty and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Shetty’s provocative statements and prescriptive solution to various problems facing the oldest and the largest democracies in the world has been thoroughly analyzed and scrutinized. The author’s life history has been highlighted to show to the younger disillusioned generation that one can reach pinnacle of success in spite of all the ups and down in life. Dr. Shetty, a highly educated and qualified drug discovery scientist, received his Ph.D. two M.S. and two B.S. degrees from U. Penn and University of Science in Philadelphia. He has received scientific awards, authored and coauthored scientific papers and patents, lectured and chaired national and international conferences all over the world. Dr. Shetty was born in India, became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America, the country he loves, which has become his permanent home.
