Research Catalog
The sitcom
- Title
- The sitcom / Jeremy G. Butler.
- Author
- Butler, Jeremy G., 1954-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 261 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre's position as a major media artefact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the USA. Everyone loves the sitcom genre; and yet, paradoxically, everyone hates the sitcom, too. This book examines themes of gender, race, ethnicity, and the family that are always at the core of humor in our culture, tracking how those discourses are embedded in the sitcom's relatively rigid storytelling structures. Butler pays particular attention to the sitcom's position in today's post-network media landscape and sample analyses of Sex and the City, Black-ish, The Simpsons, and The Andy Griffith Show illuminate how the sitcom is infused with foundational American values. At once contemporary and reflective, The Sitcom is a must-read for students and scholars of television, comedy, and broader media studies, and a great classroom text"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge television guidebooks
- Uniform Title
- Routledge television guidebooks.
- Subject
- Since 1945
- Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States > History and criticism
- Television programs > Social aspects > United States
- Popular culture > United States
- Civilization
- Popular culture
- Situation comedies (Television programs)
- Television programs > Social aspects
- United States > Civilization > 1945-
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Videography : (pages 246-248).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Comedy genre, humor theory -- Understanding the sitcom -- A critical/cultural history of the sitcom -- Comedy, family, and small towns -- Comedy, sex, and gender identity -- Comedy, race, ethnicity, and religion -- Comedy, televisuality, and convergence.
- Call Number
- MWGT 20-2562
- ISBN
- 9781138850941
- 1138850942
- 9781138850965
- 1138850969
- 9781315724454 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019047117
- 40029719484
- OCLC
- 1124776156
- Author
- Butler, Jeremy G., 1954- author.
- Title
- The sitcom / Jeremy G. Butler.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge television guidebooksRoutledge television guidebooks.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1945
- Other Form:
- Online version: Butler, Jeremy G., The sitcom First. New York : Routledge, 2020. 9781315724454 (DLC) 2019047118
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029719484
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 20-2562