LEADER 03148nam 22004575 450 001 9910300020603321 005 20200701184019.0 010 $a3-319-93094-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-93094-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000004836522 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5435259 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-93094-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004836522 100 $a20180622d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Lonely Nineties $eVisions of Community in Contemporary US Television /$fby Paul Arras 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 311 $a3-319-93093-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Watching TV after the Wall Came Down -- 2. Lonely Bowling and Other Critical Contexts -- 3. They Let You Just Sit There: The Failure of the Coffee Shop in Seinfeld, Friends, and Frasier -- 4. I?m Doing This My Own Way: Redeeming NYPD Blue?s Racist Hero -- 5. It Was a Different Time: Law & Order, White Rabbits, and the Decline of Sixties Radicalism -- 6. The Truth is Out There?and He Loves You: Depictions of Faith in The X-Files and Touched by an Angel -- 7. This Town Ain?t So Bad: Eternity in Heavenly Springfield with The Simpsons -- 8. TV after the Nineties. 330 $aThis book examines the most popular American television shows of the nineties?a decade at the last gasp of network television?s cultural dominance. At a time when American culture seemed increasingly fragmented, television still offered something close to a site of national consensus. The Lonely Nineties focuses on a different set of popular nineties television shows in each chapter and provides an in-depth reading of scenes, characters or episodes that articulate the overarching ?ideology? of each series. It ultimately argues that television shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, Law & Order and The Simpsons helped to shape the ways Americans thought about themselves in relation to their friends, families, localities, and nation. It demonstrates how these shows engaged with a variety of problems in American civic life, responded to the social isolation of the age, and occasionally imagined improvements for community in America. . 606 $aMotion pictures and television 606 $aUnited States?Study and teaching 606 $aScreen Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413000 606 $aAmerican Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411010 615 0$aMotion pictures and television. 615 0$aUnited States?Study and teaching. 615 14$aScreen Studies. 615 24$aAmerican Culture. 676 $a302.23450973 700 $aArras$b Paul$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0880946 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300020603321 996 $aThe Lonely Nineties$91967606 997 $aUNINA