Critiquing the sitcom : a reader
An anthology of writings that examine the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as ""I Remember Mama"" to the more recent ""Roseanne"".
Print Book, English, 2003
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y., 2003
Aufsatzsammlung
xix, 357 pages ; 24 cm.
9780815629832, 0815629834
50348291
Why remember Mama? The changing face of a woman's narrative / George Lipsitz
Amos 'n' Andy and the debate over American racial integration / Thomas Cripps
Situation comedy, feminism, and Freud : discourses of Gracie and Lucy / Patricia Mellencamp
Returning from the moon : Jackie Gleason and the carnivalesque / Virginia Wright Wexman
Sitcoms and suburbs : positioning the 1950s homemaker / Mary Beth Haralovich
The unworthy discourse : situation comedy in television / Paul Attallah
From Gauguin to Gilligan's island / Laura Morowitz
"Is this what you mean by color TV?" Race, gender, and contested meanings in Julia / Aniko Bodroghkozy
The Mary Tyler Moore show : women at home and at work / Serafina Bathrick
I love Laverne and Shirley : lesbian narratives, queer pleasures, and television sitcoms / Alexander Doty
Where everybody knows your name : Cheers and the mediation of cultures / Michelle Hilmes
Structuralist analysis 1 : Bill Cosby and recoding ethnicity / Michael Real
Roseanne : unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn
The triumph of popular culture : situation comedy, postmodernism, and The Simpsons / Matthew Henry
Sitcoms say good-bye : the cultural spectacle of Seinfeld's last episode / Joanne Morreale