1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001470730403321

Autore

Gatto, Marino

Titolo

Introduzione all'ecologia delle popolazioni / Marino Gatto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Cooperativa libraria del Politecnico, 1985

ISBN

88-7005-648-1

Descrizione fisica

332 p. ; 26 cm

Locazione

DBV

Collocazione

6 II 62

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300020603321

Autore

Arras Paul

Titolo

The Lonely Nineties : Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television / / by Paul Arras

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319930947

331993094X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Disciplina

302.23450973

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Television broadcasting

Ethnology - America

Culture

Film and Television Studies

American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Watching TV after the Wall Came Down -- 2. Lonely Bowling and Other Critical Contexts -- 3. They Let You Just Sit There: The Failure of the Coffee Shop in Seinfeld, Friends, and Frasier -- 4. I'm Doing This My Own Way: Redeeming NYPD Blue's Racist Hero -- 5. It Was a Different Time: Law & Order, White Rabbits, and the Decline of Sixties Radicalism -- 6. The Truth is Out There...and He Loves You: Depictions of Faith in The X-Files and Touched by an Angel -- 7. This Town Ain't So Bad: Eternity in Heavenly Springfield with The Simpsons -- 8. TV after the Nineties.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the most popular American television shows of the nineties-a decade at the last gasp of network television's cultural dominance. At a time when American culture seemed increasingly fragmented, television still offered something close to a site of national consensus. The Lonely Nineties focuses on a different set of popular nineties television shows in each chapter and provides an in-depth reading of scenes, characters or episodes that articulate the overarching "ideology" of each series. It ultimately argues that television shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, Law & Order and The Simpsons helped to shape the ways Americans thought about themselves in relation to their friends, families, localities, and nation. It demonstrates how these shows engaged with a variety of problems in American civic life, responded to the social isolation of the age, and occasionally imagined improvements for communityin America. .