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Hodenberg Christina von |
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Television's moment : sitcom audiences and the sixties cultural revolution / / Christina von Hodernberg |
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Situation comedies (Television programs) - Great Britain |
Situation comedies (Television programs) - United States |
Situation comedies (Television programs) - Germany (West) |
Television - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Television - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century |
Television - Social aspects - Germany (West) - History - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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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Television's Moment; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction - Negotiating the Sixties; Chapter 1 - Three Sitcoms; Chapter 2 - Three Settings; Chapter 3 - The Era of Limited Choice; Chapter 4 - Alf Garnett and the British Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 5 - Archie Bunker and the American Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 6 - Alfred Tetzlaff and the West German Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 7 - Comedy against Racism; Chapter 8 - Trading TV Bigots; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus - Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and One Heart and One Soul in West Germany - centered on a bigoted anti-hero and his family. Between 1966 and 1979 they saturated popular culture, and managed to accelerate as well as deradicalize value changes and collective att |
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