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The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition

America Re-viewed, Still Skewed
  • Edited by: Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016
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Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.

Author / Editor information

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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In Search of the Radio Sitcom
David Marc
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Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to Modern Family
Judy Kutulas
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Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology
Lori Landay
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Working-Class Masculinity in The Honeymooners
Steven T. Sheehan
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Rick Worland and John O’leary
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Safety in Numb-ers
Gary Kenton
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Production Practices and the Making of Representation in Julia
Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz
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Gerard Jones
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Reconstructing Gender in 1970s Workplace Comedies
Judy Kutulas
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Views of Media Ownership in Situation Comedies
Paul R. Kohl
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Recoding Ethnicity and Masculinity within the Television Text
Michael Real and Lauren Bratslavsky
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Susan McLeland
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Searching for the Ideal Public Sphere in the Ideal Public House
Robert S. Brown
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The Transcendence of the Quotidian
Albert Auster
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Privileging Liberal Feminism in Daily Sitcom Life
Laura R. Linder and Mary M. Dalton
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Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s Sex and the City
Sharon Marie Ross
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The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy
H. Peter Steeves
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Transgressive Comedy on Television
Michael V. Tueth
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Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC’s Will & Grace
Denis M. Provencher
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Robin R. Means Coleman, Charlton D. Mcilwain and Jessica Moore Matthews
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A Legit Analysis
James Schultz
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Unmasking Sitcom Myths of Gender, Sex(uality), and Money
Maria San Filippo
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Sitcoms are Not Dead!
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 12, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781438461328
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
412
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Total Illustrations: 29
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