Sitcoms and Culture
Author:   James Shanahan
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253073013


Pages:   324
Publication Date:   03 June 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   James Shanahan
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780253073013


ISBN 10:   0253073014
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   03 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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"Acknowledgments 1. Cultural Indicators 2. Brief history of situation comedies 3. ""Sitlit"": Sitcoms, their images, content, and effects 4. Family, life, love, good, house: The universe and demography of sitcoms 5. Textual analysis 6. Sitcoms, cultural indicators, and social change Afterword Appendix A: Situation comedies referenced Appendix B: Sitcom syllabus Bibliography Index"

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James Shanahan is Professor in The Media School at Indiana University, where he was Founding Dean from 2015 to 2021. He is author of Media Effects: A Narrative Perspective and has co-authored and co-edited several books focused on the effects of media, especially television, including (with Michael Morgan) Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research and (with Janet McCabe, Kimberly A. Novick, and Gabriel M. Filippelli) Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond (IUP, 2022).

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