03326nam 2200565 450 991082786640332120230803201749.01-61374-386-6(CKB)3710000000087026(EBL)1609759(SSID)ssj0001113235(PQKBManifestationID)12508162(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001113235(PQKBWorkID)11166493(PQKB)11470440(MiAaPQ)EBC1609759(Au-PeEL)EBL1609759(CaPaEBR)ebr10842770(CaONFJC)MIL572941(OCoLC)870273125(EXLCZ)99371000000008702620140313h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSitcom a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community /Saul Austerlitz ; John Yates, cover designChicago, Illinois :Chicago Review Press,2014.©20141 online resource (418 p.)"An A Cappella Book"--T.p. verso.1-61374-384-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Introduction; 1 I Love Lucy: "Lucy Does a TV Commercial"; 2 The Honeymooners: "Better Living Through TV"; 3 The Phil Silvers Show: "Doberman's Sister"; 4 Leave It to Beaver: "Beaver Gets 'Spelled"; 5 The Dick Van Dyke Show: "Forty-Four Tickets"; 6 Gilligan's Island: "St. Gilligan and the Dragon"; 7 The Mary Tyler Moore Show: "Chuckles Bites the Dust"; 8 All in the Family: "The First and Last Supper"; 9 M*A*S*H: "Yankee Doodle Doctor"; 10 Taxi: "Latka the Playboy"; 11 Cheers: "Strange Bedfellows, Pt. 2"12 The Cosby Show: "Pilot"13 Roseanne: "Terms of Estrangement, Part 1"; 14 The Simpsons: "22 Short Films About Springfield"; 15 Seinfeld: "The Pitch"; 16 The Larry Sanders Show: "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show"; 17 Friends: "The One with the Embryos"; 18 Sex and the City: "My Motherboard, My Self"; 19 Freaks and Geeks: "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers"; 20 Curb Your Enthusiasm: "Seinfeld"; 21 Arrested Development: "S.O.B.s"; 22 The Office: "Casino Night"; 23 30 Rock: "Rosemary's Baby"; 24 Community: "Modern Warfare"; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index; Back CoverA carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in its history, the best of what the genre has accomplished, and the most standard of its works. From I Love Lucy, The Phil Silvers Show, and M*A*S*H to Taxi, The Larry Sanders Show, and 30 Rock, this guide presents the sitcom as a capsule version of the 20th-century arts-realism giving way to modernism and then to postmodernism, all between the hours of 8Situation comedies (Television programs)United StatesSituation comedies (Television programs)791.45/617PER010030PER010000PER010040bisacshAusterlitz Saul1599681Yates John1599682MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827866403321Sitcom3922445UNINA