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Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy /

"Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and radio was the most powerful and pervasive mass medium in the US. In 23 years of weekly radio broadcasts, by aiming all the insults at himself, Benny...

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Autor principal: Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Becoming Benny : the development of Jack Benny's character-focused comedy for radio
  • "What are you laughing at, Mary" : Mary Livingstone's comic voice
  • Masculine gender identity in Jack Benny's humor
  • Eddie Anderson, Rochester, and race in 1930s radio and film
  • Rochester and the revenge of Uncle Tom in the 1940s and 1950s
  • The commercial imperative : Jack Benny, advertising and radio sponsors
  • Jack Benny's inter-media juggling of radio and film
  • Benny at war with the radio critics
  • Jack Benny's turn towards television.