| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xix, 357 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Television series
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Television series (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337) and index. |
| Contents |
Why remember Mama? The changing face of a woman's narrative / George Lipsitz -- Amos 'n' Andy and the debate over American racial integration / Thomas Cripps -- Situation comedy, feminism, and Freud : discourses of Gracie and Lucy / Patricia Mellencamp -- Returning from the moon : Jackie Gleason and the carnivalesque / Virginia Wright Wexman -- Sitcoms and suburbs : positioning the 1950s homemaker / Mary Beth Haralovich -- The unworthy discourse : situation comedy in television / Paul Attallah -- From Gauguin to Gilligan's island / Laura Morowitz -- "Is this what you mean by color TV?" Race, gender, and contested meanings in Julia / Aniko Bodroghkozy -- The Mary Tyler Moore show : women at home and at work / Serafina Bathrick -- I love Laverne and Shirley : lesbian narratives, queer pleasures, and television sitcoms / Alexander Doty -- Where everybody knows your name : Cheers and the mediation of cultures / Michelle Hilmes -- Structuralist analysis 1 : Bill Cosby and recoding ethnicity / Michael Real -- Roseanne : unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn -- The triumph of popular culture : situation comedy, postmodernism, and The Simpsons / Matthew Henry -- Sitcoms say good-bye : the cultural spectacle of Seinfeld's last episode / Joanne Morreale. |
| Subject |
Situation comedies (Television programs) -- United States.
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Situation comedies (Television programs) |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Morreale, Joanne, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Critiquing the sitcom. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003 (OCoLC)606931454 |
| ISBN |
0815629834 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780815629832 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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