Sitcom : a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community /
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| Author / Creator: | Austerlitz, Saul, author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2014] ©2014 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (406 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11219719 |
| Summary: | A carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in its history, the best of what the genre has accomplished, and the most standard of its works. From I Love Lucy, The Phil Silvers Show, and M*A*S*H to Taxi, The Larry Sanders Show, and 30 Rock, this guide presents the sitcom as a capsule version of the 20th-century arts--realism giving way to modernism and then to postmodernism, all between the hours of 8 and 10pm on weeknights. Each chapter springs from an individual representative entity, including The Simpsons' "22 Short Films About Springfield," The Mary Tyler Moore Show's "Chuckles Bites the Dust," Seinfeld's "The Pitch," and Freaks and Geeks' "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," where Martin Starr's nerdy Bill takes comfort in--what else--the pleasures of laughing at TV. |
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| Item Description: | "An A Cappella Book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (406 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781613743867 1613743866 9781613743874 1613743874 1306416906 9781306416900 9781613743843 161374384X |