ISBN:
9780415886383
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 168 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in television studies no. 1
Parallel Title:
Print version Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture
DDC:
302.23/45
Keywords:
Parody
;
Television broadcasting History 20th century
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Television broadcasting Social aspects
Abstract:
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 televis
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (not-so) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : nasculinity and taste in Playboy's Penthouse -- Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery -- Black tie, straightjacket : Oscar Levant's sick life on TV -- Conclusion : television for people who hate television?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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