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Midcentury America succumbs: the television set invades, conquering homes, lives.

The Glass Eye Invasion--Television Sets Invade The Midcentury Home

  • Paperback

    246 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2025

Summary

It’s TV Time!

Put on your time travel beanie, spin its propeller, and journey back to Midcentury America. You’ve heard of television, may have even seen a demonstration at a county fair or exposition, but you’ve never owned a television set-and you want to-except for one problem: there isn’t a television station in your town. Fortunately, the Federal Communications Commission has finally lifted its freeze on new television stations and your city wants to be the first with television. …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798349348662
Author:Steven John Kosareff
Publisher:Glass Eye Publications
Imprint:Glass Eye Publications
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:246
Release Date:1 September 2025
Weight:617g
Dimensions:16mm x 216mm x 216mm
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The Glass Eye Invasion--Television Sets Invade The Midcentury Home by Steven John Kosareff - ISBN: 9798349348662
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About The Author

Steven John Kosareff

Steve Kosareff is an author, graphic designer, historian, screenwriter, film director, editor and producer. His first book, “Window to the Future: The Golden Age of Television Marketing and Advertising” was published by Chronicle Books in 2005. The book fondly looks back at the culture of marketing and advertising television sets during the golden age of American manufacturing in the 1950s and 60s. He next wrote, produced and directed a related documentary, “TV Man: The Search for the Last Independent Dealer” about the few remaining mom-and-pop stores which sold and repaired television sets in the United States. As a student of film noir Kosareff revisited his past and wrote the true crime memoir, “Satin Pumps: The Moonlit Murder That Mesmerized the Nation” published by WildBlue Press in February 2021. “Satin Pumps” revisits the infamous 1959 Finch-Tregoff murder case in which Dr. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend and medical assistant, Carole Tregoff, conspired with others to murder his wife, Barbara Jean. Kosareff was just eight years old when Finch, who also happened to be the family doctor murdered his wife. Kosareff’s personal connections to the players and the close physical proximity to events proved to be invaluable in building the story from his point of view as a child and later as an adult looking back at contradictions that have plagued the case for sixty years. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

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