evaluate Lynn Spigel, "The People in the Theater Next Door," in Make Room for TV IN analytical outline consist of the following:

1)The first part should identify the thesis.

2)Trace how the author attempts to prove this thesis. 

3)In the third section, state your reactions to the essay, including what you perceive to be brilliance, flaws, or errors on the writer's part.

1)Make room for Television: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America, Spigel presents a social-cultural history of the new medium and America's response to TV entry into their lives post World War II. Spigel presents five chapters beginning with the background on domestic life history and amusements of families and the other four chapters focus on the influence of television of Americans since its entry into their homes.

2)Since many people thought that the TV would be of great benefit and undying force in homes others had the contrary opinion that it would destructive and divisive. In chapter 2 she offers a look at television in the circle of family, television watching regardless of the time or what one is doing became part of a daily life.

3)Make room for TV is worth reading for those interested in social history , semiotics and many other fields related to communication despite of some few repetition of some words and substitution of 'compassionate' for "companionate" in describing ideal of family life since the late nineteenth century. The book is flawed by Spigel's use of source material, it is based primarily on generalization from her own reading of popular magazines. Her opinion is acceptable since "most magazines" depicts women's image of domestic space.