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Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture

Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture

Thompson, Ethan

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Humor20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415886384
ISBN13: 9780415886383
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 7 2010
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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