Television: A Cultural Indicator

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This essay discusses the manner in which Hollywood studios have portrayed family life, race relations, and the role of women during the 1950's and the present, and explores some of the ostensible cultural changes visible through television.

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"Television instantaneously mesmerized the country when first introduced into American households during the late 1940s. In less than a decade television broadcasted its way to the forefront of American culture and consequently became one of the leading cultural indicators.1 By the end of the 1950s, more than forty-five million living rooms were illuminated by the dim, flickering lights of a television set. 2 Characterized by such actors as Milton Berle, Sid Ceasar, Imogene Coca, and Lucille Ball, and such early classic programs such as "The Honeymooners" and Rod Sterling's "Requiem for a Heavyweight", television's innovative first decade has come to be known as The Golden Age of Television."

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