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Laughter In The Living Room: Television Comedy And The American Home Audience (Popular Culture and Everyday Life)
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For more than fifty years some very funny people have been entering American homes through television's big picture window. From Lucy and Uncle Miltie, to Archie Bunker and Marge Simpson, certain comic stars of television history have become not just cultural icons, but friends of the family. This comprehensive study of the most successful television comedies-including domestic sitcoms, workplace comedies, variety shows, late-night comedy, animated comedy, and more-reveals that, unlike the comedy found in film, on stage, in comedy clubs and concert halls, television's presentation of comic characters and stories must negotiate a relationship with the more privatized and value-laden environment of each American home that it enters.
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Pages 241
Dimensions: Length: 8.82" Width: 5.98" Height: 0.63"
Weight: 0.79 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Publisher Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 0820468452
EAN 9780820468457
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 | Heaven kissed my eyes as I read these pages May 24, 2007 |
This book is essential and obligatory reading for anyone who has ever head of a television, much less watched one. From the cover to the appendix, I was sucked into the book like a renegade ghost when the ghostbusters opened their trap, except for one difference. The ghost fought the pull, while I let the power of this book's content sink its claws into my excited brain and rip me out of my lousy reality into a world dominated by well constructed entertainment.
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