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Author(s): Ethan Thompson
ISBN(s): 9780415886383, 0415886384
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.12 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10:    0415886384
ISBN 13: 978-0415886383
Author:       Ethan Thompson

In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1950s, an explosion of satire and parody took place across a wide field of American culture―in magazines, comic books, film, comedy albums, and on television itself. Taken together, these case studies don’t just analyze and theorize the production and consumption of parody and television, but force us to revisit and revise our notions of postwar “consensus” culture as well.

 

Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture 1st  Table of contents:

  1. The New, Sick Sense

    • Repressed Laughter: At Home and Abroad
    • Sickniks and Other Malcontents
    • Shelley Berman’s Cerebral Laxatives
    • Mad in the U.S.A.
    • Charting the Mirth Spectrum
    • Conclusion

  2. What, Me Subversive?

    • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Decade
    • Mad Takes on TV
    • Theorizing the Usual Gang of Idiots
    • Potrezebie, Comrades!
    • Conclusion

  3. The Parodic Sensibility and the Sophisticated Gaze

    • The View from the Top (of the TV)
    • Contemplation, Not Carpentry
    • Conclusion

  4. Ernie Kovacs and the Logics of Television Parody and Electronic Trickery

    • TV Art vs. TV Culture
    • A Brief Kovacs History
    • The Cigar-Smoking Actor/Auteur
    • Conclusion

  5. Black Tie, Straightjacket

    • Building an Incomparable Presence
    • The Local Levant
    • Ingredients of a TV Antidote

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