Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed / Edition 1

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Overview

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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780791465707
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/2005
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 887,348
  • Product dimensions: 5.94 (w) x 8.88 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Table of Contents

1 Origins of the genre : in search of the radio sitcom 15
2 Breaking and entering : transgressive comedy on television 25
3 American situation comedies and the modern comedy of manners 35
4 Who rules the roost? : sitcom family dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes 49
5 From Ozzie to Ozzy : the reassuring nonevolution of the sitcom family 61
6 Against the organization man : The Andy Griffith Show and the small-town family ideal 73
7 I Love Lucy : television and gender in postwar domestic ideology 87
8 Our Miss Brooks : situating gender in teacher sitcoms 99
9 Talking sex : comparison shopping through female conversation in HBO's Sex and the City 111
10 The hidden truths in black sitcoms 125
11 Segregated sitcoms : institutional causes of disparity among black and white comedy images and audiences 139
12 Negotiated boundaries : production practices and the making of representation in Julia 151
13 Ellen : coming out and disappearing 165
14 Sealed with a kiss : heteronormative narrative strategies in NBC's Will & Grace 177
15 Poofs - cheesy and other : identity politics as commodity in South Park 191
16 Women, love, and work : The Doris Day Show as cultural dialogue 205
17 Liberated women and new sensitive men : reconstructing gender in the 1970s workplace comedies 217
18 "Who's in charge here?" : views of media ownership in situation comedies 227
19 Sex and the sitcom : gender and genre in millennial television 241
20 Cheers : searching for the ideal public sphere in the ideal public house 253
21 "It's just a bunch of stuff that happened" : The Simpsons and the possibility of postmodern comedy 261
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