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Comic drunks, crazy cults, and lovable monsters : bad behavior on American television /
"Diffrient explores the ways in which social imaginaries related to "bad behavior" have been humorously exploited over the years through his examination of a broad range of network and cable TV shows across the history of the medium"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press,
2022.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Television and popular culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contemporary TV Comedy: A "Good Place" for "Bad People"
- Part One. TV's Alcoholic Imaginary: Comic Drunks, Militaristic Drinking, and the Rhetoric of Recovery
- 1. Very Drunken Episodes: Comedy TV's Discourses of Insobriety
- 2. "Drinking the War Away": Alcoholic Merriment in M*A*S*H and Other Military-Themed Sitcoms
- 3. The Big Book on the Small Screen: Alcoholics Anonymous, Standup Comedy, and Television's Road to Recovery
- Part Two. TV's Cult Imaginary: Comic Cultists, Pathologized Fandoms, and the Rhetoric of "Crazy" Talk
- 4. Very Crazy Episodes: Cultivating Misconceptions about Cults on American Television
- 5. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" of Cult TV: Fans, Followers, and Fringe Religions in Strangers with Candy and Veronica Mars
- Part Three. TV's Monstrous Imaginary: Comic Creeps, Neighborly Terrors, and the Rhetoric of Trump
- 6. Very Spooky Episodes: Intertextual Monsters, Moral Panics, and the Playful Perversions of Halloween TV
- 7. "Three-Headed Monster": Queer Representation, Social Class, and the Trumpist Rhetoric of Roseanne
- 8. "Ugly Americans": Animating Monsters, Demonizing Others, and Racializing Fear on American Television
- Beyond Bad and Evil: Finding TV's "Good Place"