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1 online resource (vii, 179 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
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| Summary |
During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses on the impact the decade's television shows had on middle class family structure. These sitcoms sought to appeal to upwardly mobile "career women" and were often structured around non-nuclear families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms such as Full House, Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, and Who's the Boss? against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Selling Ms. Consumer -- "I can't help feeling maternal -- I'm a father!": Domesticated dads and career women -- Solving the day-care crisis, one episode at a time: family sitcoms and privatized childcare in the 1980s -- "You could call me the maid -- but I wouldn't": lessons in masculine domestic labor -- Disrupting the fantasy: Reagan era realities and feminist pedagogies |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Situation comedies (Television programs) -- United States.
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Situation comedies (Television programs) |
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United States. |
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1980 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leppert, Alice. TV family values. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019] 9780813592688 (DLC) 2018025411 (OCoLC)1040083639 |
| ISBN |
9780813592718 (electronic book) |
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0813592712 (electronic book) |
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9780813592688 (cloth) |
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0813592682 (cloth) |
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9780813592671 (paperback) |
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0813592674 (paperback) |
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