“[Fire Alarm Bleeping]”: Explosive Appliances and the Legacy of 1950s Suburbia in Contemporary US Television

  • Rachele Dini (Speaker)

    Activity: Talk or presentation for an academic audienceInvited talk for an academic audience

    Estimated audience numbers (if applicable)

    40
    Period21 Apr 2022
    Event titleBritish Association for American Studies Conference 2022
    Event typeConference
    LocationHull, United KingdomShow on map
    Degree of RecognitionInternational

    Keywords

    • domesiticy
    • manifest domesticity
    • gated communities
    • suburbia
    • television
    • YOU
    • netflix
    • digitisation
    • internet of things
    • domestic violence
    • thriller
    • murder
    • domestic drama
    • gender
    • 1950s
    • midcentury America
    • appliances
    • surveillance
    • history of technology
    • domestic militarization
    • drone technology
    • vibrators
    • time-saving
    • efficiency
    • US culture
    • gender politics
    • Norman Rockwell
    • Richard Yates
    • housewife
    • mad housewife novel
    • cooption
    • feminism
    • white supremacy
    • class inequality