Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American Culture (Media and Popular Culture) - Softcover
Comic Visions, Second Edition is an update of the most influential critical history of American television comedy.
- Most comprehensive social and critical history of American television comedy
- Very engaging, lucid and entertaining writing style
- Approaches social criticism without being too scholarly and pedantic
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Comic Visions, Second Edition is an update of the most influential critical history written on the evolution of American television comedy. In his witty, lucid, and insightful style, David Marc skilfully combines historical research with cultural analysis to provide an immensely readable study of television comedy as a reflection of the diversity and richness in American society.
About the Author:
Marc examines the roots of television comedy beginning with the influence of Vaudeville, cinema and radio on the variety shows and sitcoms of the 1940's and 1950's. He then moves into television's response to the turbulent 1960's and the great expansion of situational comedy popular in the 1970's. A completely new chapter looks at recent developments such as Comedy Central and the proliferation of stand-up comedy and also includes an engaging analysis of why shows like Seinfeld and The Simpsons are such major hits in the 1990s.
Foreword by Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
David Marc teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California and at the Department of Film and Television, UCLA. He is a frequent contributor to The Village Voice and is the author of Demographic Vistas, Revised Edition (1996), and Bonfire of the Humanities (1995).
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- PublisherUnwin Hyman
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0415907365
- ISBN 13 9780415907361
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1992 reprinting, very good + paperback shows exposure toning at spine head, bumping and small wrinkle at bottom corner of rear wraps and some other light trace wear. 239 pages with index. Solid copy of this 4th installment in the Media and Popular Culture series. Seller Inventory # 30028
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