Very special episodes : televising industrial and social change /

Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential "very special episode" format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz...

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其他作者: Cohn, Jonathan (Editor), Porst, Jennifer (Editor)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press [2021]
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2v55h3h
书本目录:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • A Very Special Introduction / JONATHAN COHN AND JENNIFER PORST
  • 1. Listen to Save Lives: Music and the Atomic Bomb in Cold War Very Special Episodes / REBA WISSNER
  • 2. Blackface on a White Christmas: Bewitched's "Sneaky Racism" / JONATHAN COHN
  • 3. Conspicuous Morality: Very Special Episodes, the War on Drugs, and Broadcast Deregulation / PHILIP SCEPANSKI
  • 4. "Due to Its Subject Matter": Creating the Very Special Teen Sex Talk in 1980s Sitcoms / BARBARA SELZNICK
  • 5. "Thanksgiving Orphans": Cheers and Very Special Holiday Episodes of Television / JENNIFER PORST
  • 6. Very Spooky Episodes: Roseanne, Working-Class Monsters, and the Playful Perversions of Halloween TV / DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT
  • 7. A Very Special Visit to the "Old Neighborhood": Containing the Los Angeles Uprising on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air / LINDSAY GIGGEY
  • 8. The Night the Lights Went out at (Most of) NBC: Producing a Network with 1994's Must See TV Blackout Stunt / ERIN COPPLE SMITH
  • 9. Ellen, "The Puppy Episode," and a Special TV Milestone? / RON BECKER
  • 10. "And Was Therea Lesson in All This?": Weaponizing-and Subverting-theVery Special Episode / ERIN GIANNINI
  • 11. Animating Entertainment, or Very Special Media Reflexivity / MIMI WHITE
  • 12. Liveness and the Live Episode in Television Comedy / BRETT MILLS
  • 13. Too black-ish?:Banned Very Special Episodes / APRYL ALEXANDER AND JENNIFER PORST
  • 14. Knife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of EastEnders / CHRISTINE BECKER
  • 15. UnREAL, Sexual Assault, and the Very Special Season / JORIE LAGERWEY AND TAYLOR NYGAARD
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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