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Author:   Mary M. Dalton ,  Laura R. Linder
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Second Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9781438461311

ISBN 10:   1438461313
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   01 June 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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"

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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.

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