Karal Ann Marling Books
As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s
The cake in kitchen, the house in the suburbs, Mamie in her mink stole, Elvis in his pink Cadillac. It was America in the 1950s, and the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new...
Read MoreGraceland: Going Home with Elvis
He didn't write music or lyrics and wasn't too articulate on the subject of himself, but when he created his dream house Elvis Presley spoke volumes about who he was. From the musical notes that da...
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