Prime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives.
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Takes us on a tour of the living rooms of the situation comedies over the past 40 years. -- American Journal of Sociology
Taylor not only dissects the family images that have influenced our culture; she reveals a notion the television industry would rather we didnt think about namely, that changes in television are driven not by any notion of art of culture but by economics. -- Seattle Weekly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Taylor not only dissects the family images that have influenced our culture; she reveals a notion the television industry would rather we didnt think about namely, that changes in television are driven not by any notion of art of culture but by economics. -- Seattle Weekly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This book grew out of an interest in television entertainment during one of the liveliest periods in its history, the 1970s, when major shifts in network policy, responding to broader cultural changes, helped produce some of the medium's most innovative programming. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
television workplace, workplace comedies, episodic series, workplace series, ethnic comedies, television narrative, night lineup, media consciousness, family comedies, nighttime soaps, dramatic series, domestic series, television genres, programming executives, ratings success, television entertainment, domestic comedy, domestic comedies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Prime-Time Families, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear, Barney Miller, The Cosby Show, New York, Lou Grant, Los Angeles, Mary Richards, Ann Romano, Good Times, Hill Street Blues, Little House, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Archie Bunker, James Brooks, Love Lucy, The Bob Newhart Show, Vietnam War, Ben Casey, Bob Hartley, Colonel Potter, Grant Tinker, Laura Petrie New!
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This book grew out of an interest in television entertainment during one of the liveliest periods in its history, the 1970s, when major shifts in network policy, responding to broader cultural changes, helped produce some of the medium's most innovative programming. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
television workplace, workplace comedies, episodic series, workplace series, ethnic comedies, television narrative, night lineup, media consciousness, family comedies, nighttime soaps, dramatic series, domestic series, television genres, programming executives, ratings success, television entertainment, domestic comedy, domestic comedies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Prime-Time Families, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear, Barney Miller, The Cosby Show, New York, Lou Grant, Los Angeles, Mary Richards, Ann Romano, Good Times, Hill Street Blues, Little House, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Archie Bunker, James Brooks, Love Lucy, The Bob Newhart Show, Vietnam War, Ben Casey, Bob Hartley, Colonel Potter, Grant Tinker, Laura Petrie New!
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- The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch on 4 pages
- The New Class? by B. Bruce-Briggs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition by Rosabeth Moss Kanter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television by Erik Barnouw on page 48, and Back Matter
- The United States (Handbooks to the Modern World, 3-Vol. Set) by Godfrey Hodgson on page 43, and Back Matter
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- The Value of Family: A Blueprint for the 21st Century by Ruth Westheimer on page 61
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