Dalton / Linder The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition

America Re-viewed, Still Skewed
2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6132-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dalton, Mary M.

Linder, Laura R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Introduction

1. Origins of the Genre: In Search of the Radio Sitcom
David Marc

THE 1950s

2. Who Rules the Roost?: Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to Modern Family
Judy Kutulas

3. I Love Lucy: Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology
Lori Landay

4. To the Moon! Working-Class Masculinity in The Honeymooners
Steven T. Sheehan

THE 1960s

5. The Rural Sitcom from The Real McCoys to Relevance
Rick Worland and John O’Leary

6. The 1960s Magicoms: Safety in Numb-ers
Gary Kenton

7. Negotiated Boundaries: Production Practices and the Making of Representation in Julia
Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz

THE 1970s

8. The Norman Lear Sitcoms and the 1970s
Gerard Jones

9. Liberated Women and New Sensitive Men: Reconstructing Gender in 1970s Workplace Comedies
Judy Kutulas

10. “Who’s in Charge Here?” Views of Media Ownership in Situation Comedies
Paul R. Kohl

THE 1980s

11. The Cosby Show: Recoding Ethnicity and Masculinity within the Television Text
Michael Real and Lauren Bratslavsky

12. Roseanne, Roseanne, Reality, and Domestic Comedy
Susan McLeland

13. Cheers: Searching for the Ideal Public Sphere in the Ideal Public House
Robert S. Brown

THE 1990s

14. Seinfeld: The Transcendence of the Quotidian
Albert Auster

15. Cybill: Privileging Liberal Feminism in Daily Sitcom Life
Laura R. Linder and Mary M. Dalton

16. Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s Sex and the City
Sharon Marie Ross

THE 2000s

17. “It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened”: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy
H. Peter Steeves

18. Breaking and Entering: Transgressive Comedy on Television
Michael V. Tueth

19. Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC’s Will & Grace
Denis M. Provencher

THE 2010s

20. The Hidden Truths in Contemporary Black Sitcoms
Robin R. Means Coleman, Charlton D. McIlwain, andJessica Moore Matthews

21. Disability and Sitcoms: A Legit Analysis
James Schultz

22. Transparent Family Values: Unmasking Sitcom Myths of Gender, Sex(uality), and Money
Maria San Filippo

Conclusion: The Evolving, Resilient Sitcom: Sitcoms are Not Dead!

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mary M. Dalton is Professor of Communication and Film Studies at Wake Forest University and author of The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies, Second Revised Edition. Laura R. Linder, a retired Associate Professor of Media Studies, is the author of Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox. Together they coauthored Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television.