Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 168 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
0203832930
,
9780203832936
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in television studies 1
Content:
In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1950s, an explosion of satire and parody took place across a wide field of American culture--in magazines, comic books, film, comedy albums, and on television itself. Taken together, these case studies don't just analyze and theorize the production and consumption of parody and television, but force us to revisit and revise our notions of postwar 'consensus' culture as well"--Provided by publisher
Content:
Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (Not-So) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze: masculinity and taste in Playboy's penthouse -- Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery -- Black tie, straightjacket: Oscar Levant's sick life on TV -- Conclusion: television for people who hate television?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index
Additional Edition:
1283041251
Additional Edition:
9781283041256
Additional Edition:
9781136839801
Additional Edition:
1136839801
Additional Edition:
9781136839757
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1136839755
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9781136839795
Additional Edition:
1136839798
Additional Edition:
9780415839006
Additional Edition:
0415839009
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9780415886383
Additional Edition:
0415886384
Additional Edition:
9780415886383
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Thompson, Ethan Parody and taste in postwar American television culture New York : Routledge, 2011
Language:
English
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