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Author Thompson, Ethan.

Title Parody and taste in postwar American television culture [electronic resource] / Ethan Thompson.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 168 p. : ill.
Series Routledge advances in television studies ; no. 1
Routledge advances in television studies ; no. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (not-so) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : nasculinity and taste in Playboy's Penthouse -- Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery -- Black tie, straightjacket : Oscar Levant's sick life on TV -- Conclusion : television for people who hate television?
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
Television broadcasting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Parody.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780415886383 (hbk.)
0203832930 (Master e-book)
9780203832936 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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