LEADER 06056nam 22008295 450 001 9910253337003321 005 20241202213513.0 010 $a1-137-55295-6 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137552952 035 $a(CKB)3710000000517097 035 $a(EBL)4096857 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001616644 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16349224 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001616644 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14921913 035 $a(PQKB)10531869 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001580032 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16258068 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001580032 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12483726 035 $a(PQKB)11696360 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-55295-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4096857 035 $a(PPN)191697788 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000517097 100 $a20160126d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBritish TV Comedies $eCultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies /$fedited by Juergen Kamm, Birgit Neumann 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (378 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-55518-5 311 $a1-137-55294-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: the aesthetics and politics of British tv comedy -- The 1950s and 1960s: beginnings of the British sitcom and the satire boom. Richard Kilborn (Stirling): A golden age of British sitcom? Hancock's half hour and Steptoe and son -- Bernd Lenz (Passau): "Your little game": myth and war in Dad's army (1968-1977) -- Alexander Brock (Halle/Saale): The struggle of class against class is a what struggle? Monty Python's Flying circus and its politics -- Mary Irwin (Northumbria): the rag trade: "everybody out!" gender, politics and class on the factory floor -- The 1970s and 1980s: new loyalties, histories and collective identities: post-familiar paradigms. Nora Plesske (Braunschweig): "Sambo" and "Snowflake": race and race relations in Love thy neighbour -- Paul Davies (Passau): "You snobs! you stupid stuck-up toffee-nosed half-witted upper-class piles of pus! Basil Fawlty's touch of class and other hotel matters in Fawlty towers -- Ju?rgen Kamm (Passau): Ignorant master, capable servants: the politics of Yes minister and Yes prime minister -- Eckart Voigts (Braunschweig): Zany "alternative comedy": The young ones vs. Margaret Thatcher -- Gerold Sedlmayr (Dortmund): The uses of history in Blackadder -- Deirdre Osborne (London): With some additional information from Stephen Bourne (London): Black British comedy: Desmond's and the changing face of television -- The 1990s: (un)doing gender and race. Jochen Petzold (Regensburg): Laughing at racism or laughing with the racists? the "Indian comedy" of Goodness gracious me -- Rainer Emig (Mainz): Exploding family values, lampooning feminism, exposing consumerism: Absolutely fabulous -- Lucia Kra?mer (Hanover): Comic strategies of inclusion and "normalisation" in the Vicar of Dibley -- John Hill (London): Subverting the sitcom from within: form, ideology and Father Ted -- Marion Gymnich (Bonn): "The lady of the house speaking": the conservative portrayal of English class stereotypes in Keeping up appearances -- Angela Krewani (Marburg): Family life in front of the telly: The Royle family -- Brett Mills (Norwich): Old jokes: One foot in the grave, comedy and the elderly -- The 2000s: Britcom boom "new Britain = "cool Britannia"? -- Anette Pankratz (Bochum): Spin, swearing and slapstick: The thick of it (2005-2012) -- Philip Jacobi (Passau): Life is stationary: mockumentary and embarrassment in The office (2001-2003) -- Joanna Rostek and Dorothea Will (Passau): From ever-lusting individuals to ever-lasting couples: Coupling (2000-2004) and emotional capitalism -- Oliver Lindner (Kiel): The comic nation: Little Britain and the politics of representation -- Stephan Karschay (Passau): Laughing in horror: hybrid genre and the grotesque body in Psychoville. 330 $aThis collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. 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