Parody and taste in postwar American television culture / by Ethan Thompson.

In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current ev...

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Main Author: Thompson, Ethan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge advances in television studies ; 1.
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505 0 |a Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (Not-So) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze: masculinity and taste in Playboy's penthouse -- Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery -- Black tie, straightjacket: Oscar Levant's sick life on TV -- Conclusion: television for people who hate television? 
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