The Sitcom Reader : America Viewed and Skewed.
Mary M. Dalton
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (357 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- The Sitcom Reader -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. Conventions of the Genre -- 1. Origins of the Genre: In Search of the Radio Sitcom David Marc -- 2. Breaking and Entering: Transgressive Comedy on Television Michael V. Tueth -- 3. American Situation Comedies and the Modern Comedy of Manners David Pierson -- PART 2. Reframing the Family -- 4. Who Rules the Roost?: Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes Judy Kutulas -- 5. From Ozzie to Ozzy: The Reassuring Nonevolution of the Sitcom Family Laura R. Linder -- 6. Against the Organization Man: The Andy Griffith Show and the Small-Town Family Ideal John O'Leary and Rick Worland -- PART 3. Gender Represented -- 7. I Love Lucy: Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology Lori Landay -- 8. Our Miss Brooks: Situating Gender in Teacher Sitcoms Mary M. Dalton -- 9. Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO's Sex and the City Sharon Marie Ross -- PART 4. Race and Ethnicity -- 10.The Hidden Truths in Black Sitcoms Robin R. Means Coleman and Charlton D. McIlwain -- 11.Segregated Sitcoms: Institutional Causes of Disparity among Black and White Comedy Images and Audiences Amanda Dyanne Lotz -- 12.Negotiated Boundaries: Production Practices and the Making of Representation in Julia Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz -- PART 5. Situating Sexual Orientation -- 13.Ellen: Coming Out and Disappearing Valerie V. Peterson -- 14.Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC's Will & -- Grace Denis M. Provencher -- 15.Poofs-Cheesy and Other: Identity Politics as Commodity in South Park Karen Anijar, Hsueh-hua Vivian Chen, and Thomas E. Walker -- PART 6. Work and Social Class -- 16.Women, Love, and Work: The Doris Day Show as Cultural Dialogue Phyllis Scrocco Zrzavy.. - 17.Liberated Women and New Sensitive Men: Reconstructing Gender in the 1970s Workplace Comedies Judy Kutulas -- 18."Who's in Charge Here?": Views of Media Ownership in Situation Comedies Paul R. Kohl -- PART 7. Implications of Ideology -- 19.Sex and the Sitcom: Gender and Genre in Millennial Television Christine Scodari -- 20.Cheers: Searching for the Ideal Public Sphere in the Ideal Public House Robert S. Brown -- 21."It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happened": The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy H. Peter Steeves -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.. - Offers a variety of perspectives on the sitcom genre and its influence on American culture.
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