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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...

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Otros Autores: Porst, Jennifer (Editor ), Cohn, Jonathan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 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 
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