Sitcom Reader America Viewed and Skewed

Name: Sitcom Reader America Viewed and Skewed
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ISBN: 9780791465707

ISBN-10: 0791465705

ISBN-13: 9780791465707

Edition: 2005

Authors: Mary M. Dalton, Laura R. Linder

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Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 10/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 353
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Conventions of the Genre


Origins of the Genre: In Search of the Radio Sitcom


Breaking and Entering: Transgressive Comedy on Television


American Situation Comedies and the Modern Comedy of Manners


Reframing the Family


Who Rules the Roost?: Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes


From Ozzie to Ozzy: The Reassuring Nonevolution of the Sitcom Family


Against the Organization Man: The Andy Griffith Show and the Small-Town Family Ideal


Gender Represented


I Love Lucy: Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology


Our Miss Brooks: Situating Gender in Teacher Sitcoms


Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO's Sex and the City


Race and Ethnicity


The Hidden Truths in Black Sitcoms


Segregated Sitcoms: Institutional Causes of Disparity among Black and White Comedy Images and Audiences


Negotiated Boundaries: Production Practices and the Making of Representation in Julia


Situating Sexual Orientation


Ellen: Coming Out and Disappearing


Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC's Will & Grace


Poofs-Cheesy and Other: Identity Politics as Commodity in South Park


Work and Social Class


Women, Love, and Work: The Doris Day Show as Cultural Dialogue


Liberated Women and New Sensitive Men: Reconstructing Gender in the 1970s Workplace Comedies


"Who's in Charge Here?": Views of Media Ownership in Situation Comedies


Implications of Ideology


Sex and the Sitcom: Gender and Genre in Millennial Television


Cheers: Searching for the Ideal Public Sphere in the Ideal Public House


"It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happened": The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy


Bibliography


List of Contributors