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The sitcom

Butler, Jeremy G., 1954- author

Overview

\"In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre's position as a major media artefact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the USA. Everyone loves the sitcom genre; and yet, paradoxically, everyone hates the sitcom, too. This book examines themes of gender, race, ethnicity, and the family that are always at the core of humor in our culture, tracking how those discourses are embedded in the sitcom's relatively rigid storytelling structures. Butler pays particular attention to the sitcom's position in today's post-network media landscape and sample analyses of Sex and the City, Black-ish, The Simpsons, and The Andy Griffith Show illuminate how the sitcom is infused with foundational American values. At once contemporary and reflective, The Sitcom is a must-read for students and scholars of television, comedy, and broader media studies, and a great classroom text\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Routledge
• Subject: Situation comedies (Television programs) United States History and criticism. / Television programs Social aspects United States. / Popular culture United States. / United States Civilization 1945-
• ISBN: 9781138850941, 1138850942, 9781138850965, 1138850969

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1992.8.C66 B88 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE