Critiquing the Sitcom A Reader

Name: Critiquing the Sitcom A Reader
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ISBN: 9780815629832

ISBN-10: 0815629834

ISBN-13: 9780815629832

Edition: 2002

Authors: Joanne Morreale

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The essays in this volume examine the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as 'I Remember Mama' to the more recent 'Roseanne'.

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 12/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.28" wide x 10.28" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction: On the Sitcom



Television in the 1940s and 1950s



Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Woman's Narrative




Amos 'n' Andy and the Debate over American Racial Integration




Situation Comedy, Feminism, and Freud: Discourses of Gracie and Lucy




Returning from the Moon: Jackie Gleason and the Carnivalesque




Sitcoms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker




Television in the 1960s



The Unworthy Discourse: Situation Comedy in Television




From Gauguin to Gilligan's Island




"Is This What You Mean by Color TV?" Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in Julia




Television in the 1970s



The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Women at Home and at Work




I Love Laverne and Shirley Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasures, and Television Sitcoms




Television in the 1980s



Where Everybody Knows Your Name Cheers and the Mediation of Cultures




Structuralist Analysis 1: Bill Cosby and Recoding Ethnicity




Television in the 1990s and Beyond



Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess




The Triumph of Popular Culture Situation Comedy, Postmodernism, and The Simpsons




Sitcoms Say Good-bye: The Cultural Spectacle of Seinfeld's Last Episode



Notes


Bibliography


Index


Illustrations



Dissident Value Conflict in Super Media