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Title The sitcom reader : America viewed and skewed / edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.
Contents Origins of the genre : in search of the radio sitcom / David Marc -- Breaking and entering : transgressive comedy on television / Michael V. Tueth -- American situation comedies and the modern comedy of manners / David Pierson -- Who rules the roost? Sitcom family dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes / Judy Kutulas -- From Ozzie to Ozzy : the reassuring nonevolution of the sitcom family / Laura R. Linder -- Against the organization man : The Andy Griffith show and the small-town family ideal / John O'Leary and Rick Worland -- I love Lucy : television and gender in postwar domestic ideology / Lori Landay -- Our Miss Brooks : situating gender in teacher sitcoms / Mary M. Dalton -- Talking sex : comparison shopping through female conversation in HBO's Sex and the city / Sharon Marie Ross -- The hidden truths in Black sitcoms / Robin R. Means Coleman and Charlton D. McIlwain -- Segregated sitcoms : institutional causes of disparity among Black and white comedy images and audiences / Amanda Dyanne Lotz -- Negotiated boundaries : production practices and the making of representation in Julia / Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz -- Ellen : coming out and disappearing / Valerie V. Peterson -- Sealed with a kiss : heteronormative strategies in NBC's Will & Grace / Denis M. Provencher -- Poofs--cheesy and other : identity politics as commodity in South Park / Karen Anijar, Hsueh-hua Vivian Chen, and Thomas E. Walker -- Women, love, and work : The Doris Day show as cultural dialogue / Phyllis Scrocco Zrzavy -- Liberated women and new sensitive men : reconstructing gender in the 1970s workplace comedies / Judy Kutulas -- "Who's in charge here?" : views of media ownership in situation comedies / Paul R. Kohl -- Sex and the sitcom : gender and genre in millennial television / Christine Scodari -- Cheers : searching for the ideal public sphere in the ideal public house / Robert S. Brown -- "It's just a bunch of stuff that happened" : the Simpsons and the possibility of postmodern comedy / H. Peter Steeves.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Radio comedies -- United States -- History and criticism.
Television comedies -- United States -- History and criticism.
Radio comedies.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Dalton, Mary M., 1962-
Linder, Laura R.
Other Form: Print version: Sitcom reader. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005 0791465691 0791465705 (DLC) 2004028407 (OCoLC)57202009
ISBN 1423748816 (electronic book)
9781423748816 (electronic book)
0791465691 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780791465691 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0791465705 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791465707 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791482636
0791482634