Very special episodes : televising industrial and social change /
Very Special Episodes examines how the quintessential "very special episode" format became a primary way in which the television industry responded to and shaped social change, cultural traumas, and industrial transformations. With essays covering shows ranging from the birth of Desi Arnaz...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- A Very Special Introduction / JONATHAN COHN AND JENNIFER PORST
- 1. Listen to Save Lives: Music and the Atomic Bomb in Cold War Very Special Episodes / REBA WISSNER
- 2. Blackface on a White Christmas: Bewitched's "Sneaky Racism" / JONATHAN COHN
- 3. Conspicuous Morality: Very Special Episodes, the War on Drugs, and Broadcast Deregulation / PHILIP SCEPANSKI
- 4. "Due to Its Subject Matter": Creating the Very Special Teen Sex Talk in 1980s Sitcoms / BARBARA SELZNICK
- 5. "Thanksgiving Orphans": Cheers and Very Special Holiday Episodes of Television / JENNIFER PORST
- 6. Very Spooky Episodes: Roseanne, Working-Class Monsters, and the Playful Perversions of Halloween TV / DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT
- 7. A Very Special Visit to the "Old Neighborhood": Containing the Los Angeles Uprising on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air / LINDSAY GIGGEY
- 8. The Night the Lights Went out at (Most of) NBC: Producing a Network with 1994's Must See TV Blackout Stunt / ERIN COPPLE SMITH
- 9. Ellen, "The Puppy Episode," and a Special TV Milestone? / RON BECKER
- 10. "And Was Therea Lesson in All This?": Weaponizing-and Subverting-theVery Special Episode / ERIN GIANNINI
- 11. Animating Entertainment, or Very Special Media Reflexivity / MIMI WHITE
- 12. Liveness and the Live Episode in Television Comedy / BRETT MILLS
- 13. Too black-ish?:Banned Very Special Episodes / APRYL ALEXANDER AND JENNIFER PORST
- 14. Knife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of EastEnders / CHRISTINE BECKER
- 15. UnREAL, Sexual Assault, and the Very Special Season / JORIE LAGERWEY AND TAYLOR NYGAARD
- Notes on Contributors
- Index