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Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law—America's Greatest ...

David Marc, Robert J. Thompson - Performing Arts - 1995 - 364 pages
From dominant performers such as Jackie Gleason and Carol Burnett to powerhouse producers such as Norman Lear and Steven Bochco, this book reviews the stories and styles of the ...
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Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture, Volume 10

David Marc - Performing Arts - 1996 - 276 pages
"Quite simply, a tour de force--a wonderful synthesis of history and criticism."--Daniel Czitrom, author of Media and the American Mind "A cooly sophisticated analysis . . . of ...
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Bonfire of the Humanities: Television, Subliteracy, and Long-Term Memory Loss

David Marc - Performing Arts - 1998 - 196 pages
This volume focuses on the relationship between the rise of the multi-media environment-television and electronic media-and the decline of the humanities in academia, the ...
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Our Movie Houses: A History of Film and Cinematic Innovation in Central New York

Norman O. Keim - History - 2008 - 228 pages
Conventional screen histories tend to concentrate on New York City and Hollywood in chronicling the evolution of American cinema. Notwithstanding both cities’ tremendous ...
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Leveling the Playing Field: The Story of the Syracuse 8

David Marc - Sports & Recreation - 2015 - 355 pages
Leveling the Playing Field tells the story of the African American members of the 1969–70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team ...
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Honey, I'm Home!: Sitcoms: Selling The American Dream

Gerard Jones - Performing Arts - 1993 - 324 pages
Gerard Jone's Honey, I'm Home! has been widely acclaimed as the premier primer on America's Morality Plays-the TV situation comedies that have chained us to our Barcaloungers ...
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Laughter in the Living Room: Television Comedy and the American Home Audience

Michael Tueth - Television comedies - 2005 - 260 pages
For more than fifty years some very funny people have been entering American homes through television's big picture window. From Lucy and Uncle Miltie, to Archie Bunker and ...
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The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed

Mary M. Dalton, Laura R. Linder - Performing Arts - 2016 - 414 pages
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy. This updated and expanded anthology offers an engaging overview of one of the oldest and most ...
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