The Lonely Nineties
Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book examines the most popular American television shows of the nineties-a decade at the last gasp of network television's cultural dominance. At a time when American culture seemed increasingly fragmented, television still offered something close to a...
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This book examines the most popular American television shows of the nineties-a decade at the last gasp of network television's cultural dominance. At a time when American culture seemed increasingly fragmented, television still offered something close to a site of national consensus. The Lonely Nineties focuses on a different set of popular nineties television shows in each chapter and provides an in-depth reading of scenes, characters or episodes that articulate the overarching "ideology" of each series. It ultimately argues that television shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, Law & Order and The Simpsons helped to shape the ways Americans thought about themselves in relation to their friends, families, localities, and nation. It demonstrates how these shows engaged with a variety of problems in American civic life, responded to the social isolation of the age, and occasionally imagined improvements for community in America. Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Lonely Nineties “
1. Watching TV after the Wall Came Down.- 2. Lonely Bowling and Other Critical Contexts.- 3. They Let You Just Sit There: The Failure of the Coffee Shop in Seinfeld, Friends, and Frasier.- 4. I'm Doing This My Own Way: Redeeming NYPD Blue's Racist Hero.- 5. It Was a Different Time: Law & Order, White Rabbits, and the Decline of Sixties Radicalism.- 6. The Truth is Out There...and He Loves You: Depictions of Faith in The X-Files and Touched by an Angel.- 7. This Town Ain't So Bad: Eternity in Heavenly Springfield with The Simpsons.- 8. TV after the Nineties.Autoren-Porträt von Paul Arras
Paul Arras is Lecturer in Communication Studies at SUNY Cortland, USA.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Arras
- 2018, 1st ed. 2018, X, 238 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319930931
- ISBN-13: 9783319930930
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.07.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Arras' use of clear and focused prose suggests a text appropriate for both graduate and upper-level undergraduate television and cultural studies courses." (Adam Christian Clark, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 41 (1), 2021)
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