The Lonely Nineties : Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television / / by Paul Arras
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| Autore: |
Arras Paul
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| Titolo: |
The Lonely Nineties : Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television / / by Paul Arras
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 302.23450973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures and television |
| United States—Study and teaching | |
| Screen Studies | |
| American Culture | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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. . |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Lonely Nineties |
| ISBN: | 3-319-93094-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910300020603321 |
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