Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 261 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

1. "In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre's position as a major media artefact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the USA. Everyone loves the sitcom genre; and yet, paradoxically, everyone hates the sitcom, too. This book examines themes of gender, race, ethnicity, and the family that are always at the core of humor in our culture, tracking how those discourses are embedded in the sitcom's relatively rigid storytelling structures. Butler pays particular attention to the sitcom's position in today's post-network media landscape and sample analyses of Sex and the City, Black-ish, The Simpsons, and The Andy Griffith Show illuminate how the sitcom is infused with foundational American values. At once contemporary and reflective, The Sitcom is a must-read for students and scholars of television, comedy, and broader media studies, and a great classroom text"--

Series statement

1. Routledge television guidebooks

Uniform title

1. Routledge television guidebooks.

Subject

1. Situation comedies (Television programs)
2. United States
3. Popular culture
4. Television programs > Social aspects > United States
5. Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States > History and criticism
6. Popular culture > United States
7. United States > Civilization > 1945-
8. Since 1945
9. Civilization
10. Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction. Comedy genre, humor theory -- Understanding the sitcom -- A critical/cultural history of the sitcom -- Comedy, family, and small towns -- Comedy, sex, and gender identity -- Comedy, race, ethnicity, and religion -- Comedy, televisuality, and convergence.

Call number

1. MWGT 20-2562

Note

1. Videography : (pages 246-248).

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.

Author

1. Butler, Jeremy G., 1954- author.

Title

1. The sitcom / Jeremy G. Butler.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Routledge television guidebooks
2. Routledge television guidebooks.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.

Chronological term

1. Since 1945

Other form:

1. Online version: Butler, Jeremy G., The sitcom First. New York : Routledge, 2020. 9781315724454 (DLC) 2019047118

LCCN

1. 2019047117

Other standard identifier

1. 40029719484

ISBN

1. 9781138850941 (hardback)
2. 1138850942
3. 9781138850965 (paperback)
4. 1138850969
5. 9781315724454 (ebook)

Research call number

1. MWGT 20-2562