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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.456170973
EAN: 9780786432356
ISBN: 0786432357
Label: McFarland
Manufacturer: McFarland
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 275
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
Publisher: McFarland
Studio: McFarland
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Product Description:
This work examines the unique and ever-changing relationship between politics and comedy through an analysis of several popular American television programs. Focusing on close readings of the work of Ernie Kovacs, Soupy Sales, and Andy Kaufman, as well as Green Acres and The Gong Show, the author provides a unique glimpse at the often subversive nature of avant-garde television comedy. The crisis in American television during the political unrest of the late 1960s is also studied, as represented by individual analyses of The Monkees, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and All in the Family. The author also focuses on more contemporary American television, drawing a comparative analysis between the referential postmodernism of The Simpsons and the confrontational absurdity of South Park.
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GREENE HITS A HOMER!
In the interest of "full disclosure," it should be noted I am acquainted with Doyle Greene both personally and professionally. Nonetheless, I am confident I would give the same review as a more "objective" reader. PTV (for short) is an incisive look at American comedy television, and where it has, and hasn't, managed to be subversive. It is not surprising how little in the way of truly avant-garde or surrealist comedy has made it into this all-absorbing, even totalitarian ... Read More
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