The Sitcom Reader
The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed

The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed


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Despite the popularity of the sitcom, one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming, The Sitcom Reader is the first book to offer critical essays devoted specifically to the form. The contributors address important topics in relation to sitcoms, such as conventions of the form, the family, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, work and social class, and ideology, and they do so from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and media studies.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE CONVENTIONS OF THE GENRE 1 Origins of the Genre: In Search of the Radio Sitcom David Marc 2 Breaking and Entering: Transgressive Comedy on Television Michael V. Tueth 3 American Situation Comedies and the Modern Comedy of Manners David Pierson PART TWO REFRAMING THE FAMILY 4 Who Rules the Roost?: Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes Judy Kutulas 5 From Ozzie to Ozzy: The Reassuring Nonevolution of the Sitcom Family Laura R. Linder 6 Against the Organization Man: The Andy Griffith Show and the Small Town Family Ideal John O'Leary and Rick Worland PART THREE GENDER REPRESENTED 7 I Love Lucy: Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology Lori Landay 8 Our Miss Brooks: Situating Gender in Teacher Sitcoms Mary M. Dalton 9 Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO's Sex and the City Sharon Marie Ross PART FOUR RACE AND ETHNICITY 10 The Hidden Truths in Black Sitcoms Robin R. Means Coleman and Charlton D. McIlwain 11 Segregated Sitcoms: Institutional Causes of Disparity among Black and White Comedy Images and Audiences Amanda Dyanne Lotz 12 Negotiated Boundaries: Production Practices and the Making of Representation in Julia Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz PART FIVE SITUATING SEXUAL ORIENTATION 13 Ellen: Coming Out and Disappearing Valerie V. Peterson 14 Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC's Will & Grace Denis M. Provencher 15 Poofs--Cheesy and Other: Identity Politics as Commodity in South Park Karen Anijar, Hsueh-hua Vivian Chen, and Thomas E. Walker PART SIX WORK AND SOCIAL CLASS 16 Women, Love, and Work: The Doris Day Show as Cultural Dialogue Phyllis Scrocco Zrzavy 17 Liberated Women and New Sensitive Men: Reconstructing Gender in the 1970s Workplace Comedies Judy Kutulas 18 "Who's in Charge Here?": Views of Media Ownership in Situation Comedies Paul R. Kohl PART SEVEN IMPLICATIONS OF IDEOLOGY 19 Sex and the Sitcom: Gender and Genre in Millennial Television Christine Scodari 20 Cheers: Searching for the Ideal Public Sphere in the Ideal Public House Robert S. Brown 21 "It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happened": The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy H. Peter Steeves Bibliography List of Contributors Index

About the Author :
Mary M. Dalton is Assistant Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University and the author of The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies. Laura R. Linder is Associate Professor of Media Arts at Marist College and the author of Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox.

Review :
"As a field of study this topic is essential. Prime-time television remains the most influential medium, helping formulate cultural sensibilities, attitudes, values, and assessments of the social world. As a genre, the situation comedy is one of the most prevalent formats on television, and this book builds on a strong foundation in media studies that seeks to understand and evaluate the social significance of these forms. The various approaches to this topic offer the widest range of intellectual rigor."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791465691
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 353
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 590 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0791465691
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: America Viewed and Skewed
  • Width: 152 mm


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