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Thompson, Ethan.
Parody and taste in postwar American television culture / Ethan Thompson. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - x, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in television studies ; no. 1 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (Not-So) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at midcentury -- 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?
9780415886383 (hbk) 9780203832936 (ebk)
Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
Television broadcasting--History--United States--20th century.
Parody.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
PN1992.3.U5 / T486
302.2345 / T486
Parody and taste in postwar American television culture / Ethan Thompson. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - x, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in television studies ; no. 1 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (Not-So) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at midcentury -- 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?
9780415886383 (hbk) 9780203832936 (ebk)
Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
Television broadcasting--History--United States--20th century.
Parody.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
PN1992.3.U5 / T486
302.2345 / T486