When TV Became a Target: Ritual and Burlesque in Television Creature Features

Abstract

:This historical study highlights the social impact of locally hosted creature features during the first generation of television in the United States. The analysis explains why ritual and performed critique were so central to this historical television genre, and the findings also depict the ambivalence implicit in early television viewership.

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