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Author Hodenberg, Christina von, author.

Title Television's moment : sitcom audiences and the sixties cultural revolution / Christina von Hodenberg.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Television's Moment -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Negotiating the Sixties -- Chapter 1 -- Three Sitcoms -- Chapter 2 -- Three Settings -- Chapter 3 -- The Era of Limited Choice -- Chapter 4 -- Alf Garnett and the British Lifestyle Revolution -- Chapter 5 -- Archie Bunker and the American Lifestyle Revolution -- Chapter 6 -- Alfred Tetzlaff and the West German Lifestyle Revolution -- Chapter 7 -- Comedy against Racism -- Chapter 8 -- Trading TV Bigots -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus - Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and One Heart and One Soul in West Germany - centered on a bigoted anti-hero and his family. Between 1966 and 1979 they saturated popular culture, and managed to accelerate as well as deradicalize value changes and collective attitudes regarding gender roles, sexuality, religion, and race.
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Subject Situation comedies (Television programs) -- Great Britain.
Situation comedies (Television programs)
Great Britain.
Situation comedies (Television programs) -- United States.
United States.
Situation comedies (Television programs) -- Germany (West)
Germany (West)
Television -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Television -- Social aspects.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Television.
Television -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Television -- Social aspects -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS / Reference.
HISTORY / Social History.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hodenberg, Christina von. Television's moment 9781782386995 (DLC) 2015006527 (OCoLC)896862116
ISBN 9781782387008 (electronic book)
1782387005 (electronic book)
9781782386995
1782386998