03348oam 2200709I 450 991045924670332120200520144314.01-136-83979-81-136-83980-11-283-04125-197866130412580-203-83293-010.4324/9780203832936 (CKB)2560000000061470(EBL)668146(OCoLC)706692651(SSID)ssj0000471963(PQKBManifestationID)12212176(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471963(PQKBWorkID)10433738(PQKB)10268499(MiAaPQ)EBC668146(Au-PeEL)EBL668146(CaPaEBR)ebr10452597(CaONFJC)MIL304125(OCoLC)893194073(EXLCZ)99256000000006147020180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrParody and taste in postwar American television culture /Ethan ThompsonRoutledge :New York,2011.1 online resource (181 p.)Routledge advances in television studies ;no. 1Description based upon print version of record.0-415-83900-9 0-415-88638-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (not-so) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : nasculinity and taste in Playboy's Penthouse -- Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery -- Black tie, straightjacket : Oscar Levant's sick life on TV -- Conclusion : television for people who hate television?In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1950s, an explosion of satire and parody took place across a wide field of American culture-in magazines, comic books, film, comedy albums, anRoutledge advances in television studies ;no. 1.Television broadcastingSocial aspectsUnited StatesTelevision broadcastingUnited StatesHistory20th centuryParodyPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Television broadcastingSocial aspectsTelevision broadcastingHistoryParody.Popular cultureHistory302.23/45Thompson Ethan.948171MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459246703321Parody and taste in postwar American television culture2143159UNINA