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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797478803321

Autore

Hodenberg Christina von

Titolo

Television's moment : sitcom audiences and the sixties cultural revolution / / Christina von Hodernberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-700-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Classificazione

AP 37740

Disciplina

791.45/617

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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