The 25 Sitcoms That Changed Television: Turning Points in American Culture

Author Laura Westengard - Aaron Barlow

Publisher Praeger

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Author

Laura Westengard - Aaron Barlow

Publisher

Praeger

Volume

Copyright

2018

ISBN13

9781440838873

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eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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TBD

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Overview

This book spotlights the 25 most important sitcoms to ever air on American television-shows that made generations laugh, challenged our ideas regarding gender, family, race, marital roles, and sexual identity, and now serve as time capsules of U.S. history.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Introduction.
The Fifties and Sixties.
1: I Love Lucy: An Appreciation.
2: The Honeymooners: American Dreaming Scaled Down to the Small Screen.
3: Leave It to Beaver: The Long and Memorable Life of Eddie Haskell.
4: Big Lessons from a Small Town: The Andy Griffith Show.
5: Spy Versus Reality: Get Smart, Satire, and Absurdity.
The Seventies.
6: The Brady Bunch: A Thoroughly Modern Family?.
7: All in the Family: A Sitcom about a Changing America That Changed America.
8: “I’m Every Woman”: The Cultural Influence and Afterlife of Florence Johnston of The Jeffersons.
9: Writing One Day at a Time: Reflections on a Life Inside the Tube.
10: Lights Out in the Newsroom: The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s WJM and the Decline of Television News.
11: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: The 1970s and the Birth of the Surreal Sitcom.
The Eighties and Nineties.
12: More Than Friendship: The Golden Girls as Intentional Community.
13: Cheers: Where Everybody Knows Your Name.
14: Feeling Some Type of Way: Whatever Happened to Murphy Brown?.
15: It Still Matters: The Cosby Show and Sociopolitical Representation on Television.
16: “The Reagans Have Had a Very Bad Effect on You”: Neoliberalism and Queer Possibilities in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
The Oughts and Teens.
17: Nearly 30 Years of “D’oh!”: The Animated Legacy of The Simpsons.
18: No Hugging, No Learning: Seinfeld between the Yuppies and Slackers.
19: Ellen: America’s Coming Out Party.
20: Beyond Wedlock: Developing Romance in Will & Grace.
21: Ask and Tell: Ambiguity and the Narrative Complexity of Sex and the City.
22: The Office: Broadcast Television in the Digital Era.
23: Black Lives Matter: Even in The Boondocks World.
24: Broad City Scrambles the Formula.
25: “This Is What Happens When They Let Men Marry Men”: Assimilative Politics
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The 25 Sitcoms That Changed Television: Turning Points in American Culture

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