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Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture

Ethan Thompson
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1950s popular culture
1950s Television
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American satire
American Studies
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Fabulous Fifties
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humor theory
media studies
Nation's Mental Health
Nation’s Mental Health
Network Tv
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Oscar Levant
Parodic Sensibility
Parody
Playboy Man
Playboy's Penthouse
Playboy’s Penthouse
Postwar American Television
postwar television comedy analysis
Quiz Show Scandal
Self-refl Exivity
Sick Humor
television history
Television Parody
Tv Comedy
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780415886383
  • Weight: 490g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Dec 2010
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1950s, an explosion of satire and parody took place across a wide field of American culture—in magazines, comic books, film, comedy albums, and on television itself. Taken together, these case studies don’t just analyze and theorize the production and consumption of parody and television, but force us to revisit and revise our notions of postwar "consensus" culture as well.
About Ethan Thompson
Ethan Thompson (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Associate Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. He is co-editor of Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era.

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