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Camp TV of the 1960s : reassessing the vast wasteland

Title: Camp TV of the 1960s : reassessing the vast wasteland / edited by Isabel C. Pinedo and W. D. Phillips.
Publication: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Description

xiv, 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

"Camp TV of the 1960s offers a comprehensive understanding of all of the many forms camp TV took during that critical decade. In reevaluating the history of camp on television, the authors reconsider the infantilized conceptualization of sixties television, which has generally been characterized as the creative and cultural ebb between the 1950s Golden Age of television and the networks' shift "relevance" in the early 1970s. Encompassing contributions from a broad range of media and television scholars that (re)consider programs like Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, chapters closely examine beloved 1960s American prime-time programs that drew significantly on aspects of camp, many of which were widely syndicated and left continuing imprints on popular culture. Other chapters consider key TV precursors from the early sixties; British camp television programs such as The Avengers; the use of musical codes to convey camp humor (even on black-and-white sets); the role that the viewing strategies of queer communities played - and continued to play even decades later; and how camp's multivalence allowed for more conservative readings, especially among older audiences, which were critical for the move to "mass camp" throughout American culture by the early seventies. "--

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Television criticism and reviews.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

MWGT 23-4415

ISBN

9780197650745
0197650740
9780197650752
0197650759
9780197650776 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023004928

OCLC

1356891417

Title

Camp TV of the 1960s : reassessing the vast wasteland / edited by Isabel C. Pinedo and W. D. Phillips.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957- editor.

Phillips, W. D. (Wyatt D.), editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Camp TV of the 1960s New York : Oxford University Press, 2023 9780197650776 (DLC) 2023004929

Research Call Number

MWGT 23-4415

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