Sitcom A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community

Name: Sitcom A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
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ISBN: 9781613743843

ISBN-10: 161374384X

ISBN-13: 9781613743843

Edition: 2014

Authors: Saul Austerlitz

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A carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in its history, the best of what the genre has accomplished, and the most standards of its works. From I Love Lucy, The Phil Silvers Show, and M*A*S*H to Taxi, The Larry Sanders Show, and 30 Rock, this guide presents the sitcom as a capsule version of the 20th century arts—realism giving way to modernism and then to postmodernism, all between the hours of 8 and 10pm on weeknights. Each chapter springs from an individual representative entity, including The Simpsons’ “22 Short Films About Springfield,” The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s “Chuckles Bites the…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

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