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As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s (Updated Edition) by Karal Ann Marling Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-674-04883-0 / 0674048830 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04883-6 / 9780674048836 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 wi |