Television's moment : sitcom audiences and the sixties cultural revolution / / Christina von Hodernberg
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| Autore: |
Hodenberg Christina von
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| Titolo: |
Television's moment : sitcom audiences and the sixties cultural revolution / / Christina von Hodernberg
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.45/617 |
| Soggetto topico: | Situation comedies (Television programs) - Great Britain |
| Situation comedies (Television programs) - United States | |
| Situation comedies (Television programs) - Germany (West) | |
| Television - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 20th century | |
| Television - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Television - Social aspects - Germany (West) - History - 20th century | |
| Classificazione: | AP 37740 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Television's Moment; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction - Negotiating the Sixties; Chapter 1 - Three Sitcoms; Chapter 2 - Three Settings; Chapter 3 - The Era of Limited Choice; Chapter 4 - Alf Garnett and the British Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 5 - Archie Bunker and the American Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 6 - Alfred Tetzlaff and the West German Lifestyle Revolution; Chapter 7 - Comedy against Racism; Chapter 8 - Trading TV Bigots; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus - Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and One Heart and One Soul in West Germany - centered on a bigoted anti-hero and his family. Between 1966 and 1979 they saturated popular culture, and managed to accelerate as well as deradicalize value changes and collective att |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Television's moment |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-700-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797478803321 |
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