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UNINA9910300020603321 |
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Autore |
Arras Paul |
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Titolo |
The Lonely Nineties : Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television / / by Paul Arras |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures and television |
United States—Study and teaching |
Screen Studies |
American Culture |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 community in America. . |
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