Research Catalog

Title

Sitcom : a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community / Saul Austerlitz.

Author

Austerlitz, Saul.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

406 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler America--until suddenly the artificial boundary between the world and television entertainment collapsed. In this book we track the growth of the sitcom, following the path that leads from I LOVE LUCY to THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW; from THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW to THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW; from M*A*S*H to TAXI; from CHEERS to ROSEANNE; from SEINFELD to CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM; and from THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW to 30 ROCK. In twenty-four episodes, SITCOM surveys the history of the form, and functions as both a TV mix tape of fondly remembered shows that will guide us to notable series and larger trends, and a carefully curated guided tour through the history of one of our most treasured art forms"--

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States
• PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
• PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Reference
• Situation comedies (Television programs)
• United States

Genre/Form

• Television programs
• Comedy television programs
• Émissions télévisées.

Note

• "An A Cappella Book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I love Lucy : Lucy does a TV commercial -- The honeymooners : Better living through TV -- The Phil Silvers show : Doberman's sister -- Leave it to Beaver : Beaver gets 'spelled -- The Dick Van Dyke show : Forty-four tickets -- Gilligan's Island : St. Gilligan and the dragon -- The Mary Tyler Moore show : Chuckles bites the dust -- All in the family : The first and last supper -- M*A*S*H : Yankee Doodle doctor -- Taxi : Latka the playboy -- Cheers : Strange bedfellows, pt. 2 -- The Cosby show : Pilot -- Roseanne : Terms of estrangement, part 1 -- The Simpsons : 22 short films about Springfield -- Seinfeld : The pitch -- The Larry Sanders show : The Mr. Sharon Stone show -- Friends : The one with the embryos -- Sex and the city : My motherboard, my self -- Freaks and geeks : Dead dogs and gym teachers -- Curb your enthusiasm : Seinfeld -- Arrested development : S.O.B.s -- The office : Casino night -- 30 Rock : Rosemary's baby -- Community : Modern warfare.

ISBN

• 9781613743843 (pbk.)
• 161374384X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013038098

OCLC

840465088

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library