The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and SkewedMary M. Dalton, Laura R. Linder Despite the popularity of the sitcom, one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming, The Sitcom Reader is the first book to offer critical essays devoted specifically to the form. The contributors address important topics in relation to sitcoms, such as conventions of the form, the family, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, work and social class, and ideology, and they do so from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and media studies. |
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... Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes Judy Kutulas 5 From Ozzie to Ozzy : The Reassuring Nonevolution of the Sitcom Family Laura R. Linder 49 61 6 Against the Organization Man : The Andy Griffith Show vii.
... Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes Judy Kutulas 5 From Ozzie to Ozzy : The Reassuring Nonevolution of the Sitcom Family Laura R. Linder 49 61 6 Against the Organization Man : The Andy Griffith Show vii.
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... Cleaver , Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver , Jerry Mathers as Beaver ( Theodore ) Cleaver , and Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver , 1957–1963 . Photo courtesy of Movie Star NewsFair . 18 38 41 50 FIGURE 5.1 . David ...
... Cleaver , Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver , Jerry Mathers as Beaver ( Theodore ) Cleaver , and Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver , 1957–1963 . Photo courtesy of Movie Star NewsFair . 18 38 41 50 FIGURE 5.1 . David ...
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... Cleavers to the Osbournes , " argues that the family lies at the heart of the American situation comedy . She begins with an examination of the 1950s sitcom families and explores how these ide- alized narratives complemented the desire ...
... Cleavers to the Osbournes , " argues that the family lies at the heart of the American situation comedy . She begins with an examination of the 1950s sitcom families and explores how these ide- alized narratives complemented the desire ...
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... Cleavers . It gave some legitimacy to youth's rebellion against their elders , while at the same time paving the way ... Cleaver and maybe not even Cliff Huxtable ; still , he cares about his wife and children , and they care about him ...
... Cleavers . It gave some legitimacy to youth's rebellion against their elders , while at the same time paving the way ... Cleaver and maybe not even Cliff Huxtable ; still , he cares about his wife and children , and they care about him ...
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Contents
Origins of the Genre In Search of the Radio Sitcom | 15 |
Breaking and Entering Transgressive Comedy on Television | 25 |
American Situation Comedies and the Modern Comedy of Manners | 35 |
Reframing the Family | 47 |
Who Rules the Roost? Sitcom Family Dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes | 49 |
From Ozzie to Ozzy The Reassuring Nonevolution of the Sitcom Family | 61 |
Against the Organization Man The Andy Griffith Show and the SmallTown Family Ideal | 73 |
Gender Represented | 85 |
Ellen Coming Out and Disappearing | 165 |
Sealed with a Kiss Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBCs Will Grace | 177 |
PoofsCheesy and Other Identity Politics as Commodity in South Park | 191 |
Work and Social Class | 203 |
Women Love and Work The Doris Day Show as Cultural Dialogue | 205 |
Liberated Women and New Sensitive Men Reconstructing Gender in the 1970s Workplace Comedies | 217 |
Whos in Charge Here? Views of Media Ownership in Situation Comedies | 227 |
Implications of Ideology | 239 |
I Love Lucy Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology | 87 |
Our Miss Brooks Situating Gender in Teacher Sitcoms | 99 |
Talking Sex Comparison Shopping through Female Conversation in HBOs Sex and the City | 111 |
Race and Ethnicity | 123 |
The Hidden Truths in Black Sitcoms | 125 |
Segregated Sitcoms Institutional Causes of Disparity among Black and White Comedy Images and Audiences | 139 |
Negotiated Boundaries Production Practices and the Making of Representation in Julia | 151 |
Situating Sexual Orientation | 163 |
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