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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The American Family on Television: A Chronology of 121 Shows, 1948-2004

The American Family on Television: A Chronology of 121 Shows, 1948-2004

Brooks, Marla

Paperback

TelevisionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 078642074X
ISBN13: 9780786420742
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Apr 13 2005
Pages: 285
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

The sitcom made its first appearance in January of 1949 with the introduction of television's first family, The Goldbergs. Since the advent of the sitcom, televised fictional families have reflected the changing structure of American society. The sitcom emphasized first the lives of suburban, working class European immigrants and gradually expanded to encompass the multicultural urban phenomena of the 1960s. The roles of men and women in the fictional family have similarly been adjusted to depict women's movement into the workforce and the changing identity of the father. As censorship laws became less stringent, sitcom viewers also began to be exposed to the realities of changing family dynamics in America, watching as the traditional nuclear family diverged to include single-parent, two-father, and two-mother households. From the cultural upheaval of the mid-century to the reality craze of the new millennium, television's families have mimicked and even influenced the changing values of American society.

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