UID:
almafu_9960177752602883
Format:
1 online resource (342 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78238-700-5
Content:
Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus - Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and One Heart and One Soul in West Germany - centered on a bigoted anti-hero and his family. Between 1966 and 1979 they saturated popular culture, and managed to accelerate as well as deradicalize value changes and collective att
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Television's Moment; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction - Negotiating the Sixties; Chapter 1 - Three Sitcoms; Chapter 2 - Three Settings; Chapter 3 - The Era of Limited Choice; Chapter 4 - Alf Garnett and the British Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 5 - Archie Bunker and the American Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 6 - Alfred Tetzlaff and the West German Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 7 - Comedy against Racism; Chapter 8 - Trading TV Bigots; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78238-699-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9781782387008
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782387008?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782387008
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782387008?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782387008
