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Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Origins of the Genre: In Search of the Radio Sitcom; Dialect Comedies; The Sitcom-variety Show Hybrids; Improving the Horse and Carriage; Notes; The 1950s; Notes; 2. Who Rules the Roost?: Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to Modern Family; 3. I Love Lucy: Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology; Notes; 4. To the Moon! Working-Class Masculinity in The Honeymooners; The 1960s; 5. The Rural Sitcom from The Real McCoys to Relevance; The Real Mccoys and Its Cohorts; "que Sera, Sera"-annually; Conclusion; Notes. |
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6. The 1960s Magicoms: Safety in Numb-ersNotes; 7. Negotiated Boundaries: Production Practices and the Making of Representation in Julia; Genre Conventions; Cinematic Style and Staging Conventions; Casting Conventions; The 1970s; 8. The Norman Lear Sitcoms and the 1970s; All in the Family; Sanford and Son; Maude; Good Times; The Jeffersons; Conclusion; Notes; 9. Liberated Women and New Sensitive Men: Reconstructing Gender in 1970s Workplace Comedies; 10. "Who's in Charge Here?" Views of Media Ownership in Situation Comedies; Alienation of the Worker: The Dick Van Dyke Show. |
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The Carnival World: The Mary Tyler Moore ShowThe Grotesque: Seinfeld; Conclusion; Notes; The 1980s; 11. The Cosby Show: Recoding Ethnicity and Masculinity within the Television Text; Mythology and Icons in the Televisual Text; Genre, Convention/invention, And Recoding Blackness; Professionals and Their Nuclear Family: Class and Affluence Codes; Disposable Income; The Value of Education; Multiracialism; Racial Pride; Humor Mediated by Humanity; Achievements and Limitations in the Cosby Recoding of "Black"; In the End; Notes; 12. Roseanne, Roseanne, Reality, and Domestic Comedy; Notes. |
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13. Cheers: Searching for the Ideal Public Sphere in the Ideal Public HouseHabermas and His Critics; Locating a Contemporary Ideal Public Sphere; The 1990s; 14. Seinfeld: The Transcendence of the Quotidian; Notes; 15. Cybill: Privileging Liberal Feminism in Daily Sitcom Life; Liberal Feminism and Cybill; Women and Work; Cultural and Political Lessons; Dating and Romance; A Foundation of Friendship; Motherhood; Conclusion; Notes; 16. Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO's Sex and the City; My Momma' Told Me ... You Better Shop Around; Shop Talk; Conclusion. |
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Addendum: What Do Women Want?The 2000s; 17. "It's Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened": The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy; Traditional Theories of Comedy Worked for More Traditional Times; So We Cannot Rise above the World. This Is Not to Be Lamented. Nothing Rises.; As the Comic Book Store Guy Would Say, This May Be the Worst ... Chapter ... Ever; Notes; 18. Breaking and Entering: Transgressive Comedy on Television; Note; 19. Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in; An Introduction to Will & Grace: (Heterosexual) Pairings and the On-screen Kiss. |
| Processing Action |
ebooks purchase 20160622 nsh UPB |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Situation comedies (Television programs) -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Situation comedies (Television programs) |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Dalton, Mary M., 1962- editor.
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Linder, Laura R., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sitcom reader. Second edition. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016 9781438461311 (DLC) 2015030787 (OCoLC)918562808 |
| ISBN |
9781438461328 (electronic book) |
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1438461321 (electronic book) |
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9781438461311 |
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1438461313 |
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9781438461304 |
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1438461305 |
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