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The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed

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This updated and expanded anthology offers an engaging overview of one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming: the sitcom. Through an analysis of formulaic conventions, the contributors address critical identities such as race, gender, and sexuality, and overarching structures such as class and family. Organized by decade, chapters explore postwar domestic ideology and working-class masculinity in the 1950s, the competing messages of power and subordination in 1960s magicoms, liberated women and gender in 1970s workplace comedies and 1980s domestic comedies, liberal feminism in the 1990s, heteronormative narrative strategies in the 2000s, and unmasking myths of gender in the 2010s. From I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners to Roseanne, Cybill, and Will & Grace to Transparent and many others in between, The Sitcom Reader provides a comprehensive examination of this popular genre that will help readers think about the shows and themselves in new contexts. For access to an online resource created by Mary Dalton, which includes interviews with contributors and course lectures, visit: The Sitcom Reader: A Companion Website @ https://build.zsr.wfu.edu/sitcomreader

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Origins of the Genre: In Search of the Radio Sitcom David Marc THE 1950s 2. Who Rules the Roost?: Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to Modern Family Judy Kutulas 3. I Love Lucy: Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology Lori Landay 4. To the Moon! Working-Class Masculinity in The Honeymooners Steven T. Sheehan THE 1960s 5. The Rural Sitcom from The Real McCoys to Relevance Rick Worland and John O’Leary 6. The 1960s Magicoms: Safety in Numb-ers Gary Kenton 7. Negotiated Boundaries: Production Practices and the Making of Representation in Julia Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz THE 1970s 8. The Norman Lear Sitcoms and the 1970s Gerard Jones 9. Liberated Women and New Sensitive Men: Reconstructing Gender in 1970s Workplace Comedies Judy Kutulas 10. “Who’s in Charge Here?” Views of Media Ownership in Situation Comedies Paul R. Kohl THE 1980s 11. The Cosby Show: Recoding Ethnicity and Masculinity within the Television Text Michael Real and Lauren Bratslavsky 12. Roseanne, Roseanne, Reality, and Domestic Comedy Susan McLeland 13. Cheers: Searching for the Ideal Public Sphere in the Ideal Public House Robert S. Brown THE 1990s 14. Seinfeld: The Transcendence of the Quotidian Albert Auster 15. Cybill: Privileging Liberal Feminism in Daily Sitcom Life Laura R. Linder and Mary M. Dalton 16. Talking Sex: Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBO’s Sex and the City Sharon Marie Ross THE 2000s 17. “It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened”: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy H. Peter Steeves 18. Breaking and Entering: Transgressive Comedy on Television Michael V. Tueth 19. Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC’s Will & Grace Denis M. Provencher THE 2010s 20. The Hidden Truths in Contemporary Black Sitcoms Robin R. Means Coleman, Charlton D. McIlwain, andJessica Moore Matthews 21. Disability and Sitcoms: A Legit Analysis James Schultz 22. Transparent Family Values: Unmasking Sitcom Myths of Gender, Sex(uality), and Money Maria San Filippo Conclusion: The Evolving, Resilient Sitcom: Sitcoms are Not Dead! Bibliography List of Contributors Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781438461304
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 412
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 657 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1438461305
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed
  • Width: 152 mm


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