Rube Tube : CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties /
"Historian Sara Eskridge examines television's rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nicknamed the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, Missouri :
University of Missouri Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Communist Broadcasting System
- Quiz Shows, Horse Operas, and the Confederacy
- A New Sheriff in Town
- The Country Broadcasting System
- Rural Comedy: The Principles of Popularity
- Rural Comedy and the Race-Free South
- The Smothers Brothers and the Rural Safety Net
- Massacre.


