Rube Tube : CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eskridge, Sara K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
CBS Television Network.
CBS Television Network > History.
Television programs > Social aspects.
Situation comedies (Television programs)
Popular culture.
Country life on television.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Émissions televisees > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Comedies de situation > Histoire et critique > États-Unis.
Vie rurale à la television.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Television programs > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > À la television.
Southern States > On television.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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