Television's Moment : : Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution / / Christina von Hodenberg.

Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country’s population. This book explores television’s impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus – Till...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (342 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Negotiating the Sixties
  • 1 Three Sitcoms
  • 2 Three Settings
  • 3 The Era of Limited Choice
  • 4 Alf Garnett and the British Lifestyle Revolution
  • 5 Archie Bunker and the American Lifestyle Revolution
  • 6 Alfred Tetzlaff and the West German Lifestyle Revolution
  • 7 Comedy against Racism
  • 8 Trading TV Bigots Transnational Trajectories
  • Conclusion Television’s Social Impact
  • Bibliography
  • Index