Television Sitcom And Cultural Crisis
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Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis
Author | : Holly Willson Holladay,Chandler L. Classen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-07 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1032699612 |
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Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis
Author | : Holly Willson Holladay,Chandler L. Classen |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2024-06-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781040086339 |
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This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises. By drawing on Gramscian notion of crisis and the understanding that crises are overlapping, interconnected, and mutually constitutive, the essays in this collection demonstrate that situation comedies do more than make us laugh; they also help us understand the complexities of our social world’s moments of crisis. Each chapter takes up the televisual representation of a modern cultural crisis in a contemporary sitcom and is grounded in the extensive body of literature that suggests that levity is a powerful mechanism to make sense of and cope with these difficult cultural experiences. Divided into thematic sections that highlight crises of institutions and systems, identity and representation, and speculation and futurism, this book will interest scholars of media and cultural studies, political economy, communication studies, and humor studies.
Television s Moment
Author | : Christina von Hodenberg |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781782387008 |
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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 attitudes regarding gender roles, sexuality, religion, and race.
Sexual Politics and Popular Culture
Author | : Diane Christine Raymond |
Publsiher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 087972501X |
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Almost wherever we look, depictions of sexuality, both subtle and not-so-subtle, are omnipresent. Whatever the medium, popular culture representations tell us something about ourselves and about the ideologies of which they are symptomatic. These essays examine the strategies of power implicit in popular representations of sexuality. The authors--scholars in fields such as sociology, philosophy, biology, political science, history, and English literature-- eschew rigid disciplinary boundaries.
Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation
Author | : Kyle Conway |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2017-03-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781442622029 |
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In 2007, Little Mosque on the Prairie premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network. It told the story of a mosque community that worshiped in the basement of an Anglican church. It was a bona fide hit, running for six seasons and playing on networks all over the world. Kyle Conway’s textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show’s creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television. Despite a desire to showcase the diversity of Muslims in Canada, the makers of Little Mosque had to erase visible signs of difference in order to reach a broad audience. This paradox of ‘saleable diversity’ challenges conventional ideas about the ways in which sitcoms integrate minorities into the mainstream.
TV Family Values
Author | : Alice Leppert |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780813592695 |
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During the 1980s, U.S. television experienced a reinvigoration of the family sitcom genre. In TV Family Values, Alice Leppert focuses on the impact the decade's television shows had on middle class family structure. These sitcoms sought to appeal to upwardly mobile “career women” and were often structured around non-nuclear families and the reorganization of housework. Drawing on Foucauldian and feminist theories, Leppert examines the nature of sitcoms such as Full House, Family Ties, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, and Who's the Boss? against the backdrop of a time period generally remembered as socially conservative and obsessed with traditional family values.
Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature Film and Popular Culture
Author | : Trine Stauning Willert,Gerasimus Katsan |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019-01-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498563390 |
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Over the past thirty years, the representation of Greek history in literature, film, and popular culture has undergone significant change. This book investigates the ways in which history operates as a tool for contemporary storytellers in various genres to contemplate the meaning of the past and its implications for the future.
Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom
Author | : Greg Wolfman |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2023-08-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000902747 |
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Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom examines how four sitcoms – Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and New Girl – mediate the tense relationship between neoliberalism and masculinities. Why is Ross in Friends so worried about everything? This book argues that the men in Friends and similar shows that follow young, straight, mostly white twentysomethings in major US cities are beset by a range of social and economic concerns about their place in society. Using multiple methods of analysis to examine these shows – including conjunctural analysis, historiographical method, and critical discourse analysis – a range of topics in these shows are examined, from sexuality through to homosociality, from race through to nationality. This book makes an insightful contribution to work on the television sitcom and on neoliberalism in culture and society. It will be an ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, post-graduates, and researchers in a range of disciplines including television and screen studies, critical studies on men and masculinities and humor studies.