The 25 sitcoms that changed television : turning points in American culture /
This book spotlights the 25 most important sitcoms to ever air on American television--shows that made generations laugh, challenged our ideas regarding gender, family, race, marital roles, and sexual identity, and now serve as time capsules of U.S. history. -- Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Santa Barbara, California :
Praeger,
[2018]
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| Online-Zugang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1627212 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- pt. 1. The fifties and sixties
- pt. 2. The seventies
- pt. 3. The eighties and nineties
- pt. 4. The oughts and teens.
- Part one: The Fifties and Sixties. I Love Lucy: An appreciation / Aaron Barlow
- The Honeymooners: American dreaming scaled down to the small screen / Martin Kich
- Leave It to Beaver: The long and memorable life of Eddie Haskell / Aaron Barlow
- Big lessons from a small town: The Andy Griffith Show / Cynthia J. Miller and Tom Shaker
- Spy versus reality: Get Smart, satire and absurdity / A. Bowdoin Van Riper
- Part two: The Seventies. The Brady Bunch: A thoroughly modern family? / Laura Westengard
- All in the Family: A sitcom about a changing America that changed America / Martin Kich
- "I'm every woman": The cultural influence and afterlife of Florence Johnston of The Jeffersons / Stacie McCormick
- Writing One Day at a Time: Reflections on a life inside the tube / Christine Tibbles McBurney
- Lights out in the newsroom: The Mary Tyler Moore Show's WJM and the decline of television news / Aaron Barlow
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: The 1970s and the birth of the surreal sitcom / Jerry G. Holt
- Part three: The Eighties and Nineties. More than friendship: The Golden Girls as intentional community / Jill Belli
- Cheers: Where everybody knows your name / Michael Katims
- Feeling some type of way: Whatever happened to Murphy Brown? / Monique Ferrell
- It still matters: The Cosby Show and sociopolitical representation on television / Jacqueline Jones
- "The Reagans have had a very bad effect on you": Neoliberalism and queer possibilities in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air / Jessica Best
- Part four: The Oughts and Teens. Nearly 30 years of "D'oh!": The animated legacy of The Simpsons / Paul Cheng
- No hugging, no learning: Seinfeld between the Yuppies and Slackers / Kevin L. Ferguson
- Ellen: American's coming out party / Laura Westengard and Aaron Barlow
- Beyond wedlock: Developing romance in Will & Grace / Emily Mattingly
- Ask and tell: Ambiguity and the narrative complexity of Sex and the City / Kimberly Hall
- The Office : Broadcast television in the digital era / Leah Shafer
- Black Lives Matter: Even in The Boondocks world / Julian Williams
- Broad City scrambles the formula / Robert Leston
- "This is what happens when they let men marry men": Assimilative politics and liberal identity in Modern Family / Laura Westengard
- Postscript / Laura Westengard and Aaron Barlow.