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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
In the 1960s, a handful of primetime television series tried to present the reality of youth culture and rebellion to America via the small screen. This attempt generated controversy, and the resulting media uproar sparked a significant change in the nature of TV entertainment. Did specific Sixties programming promote contentiousness among American youth? Bodroghkozy (film and media studies, Univ. of Alberta) investigates this question, focusing on two particularly socially relevant Sixties TV series, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Mod Squad. The author, who had input from the Smothers Brothers in her discussion of their CBS TV series and its controversial cancellation, includes several photos from their archives. She also offers a noteworthy chronology of social and media events that characterize the era covered in the book (1966-71). Recommended for academic library communications and television media collections. David M. Lisa, Wayne P.L., NJ
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Bodroghkozy inspects TV's portrayal 1960s youth conterculture. She notes, correctly, that hippies on the tube were generally much more appealing than their genuine, gentle, relatively unwashed, real-life counterparts. Her exploration of the discrepancy between youth culture as it unfolded on the streets and how it was packaged as lowest-common-denominator mass entertainment verges on explaining the persistent, superficial nostalgia for those kooky '60s. Sixties mavens will give her extra points for reproducing a vintage comic strip by Chicago's Skip Williamson, one of the cleverest of the era's underground cartoonists, including loads of stuff about the Monkees, and offering a disquisition on Dragnet illustrated by a still from the highly regarded "Blue Boy" episode. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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In the 1960s, a handful of primetime television series tried to present the reality of youth culture and rebellion to America via the small screen. This attempt generated controversy, and the resulting media uproar sparked a significant change in the nature of TV entertainment. Did specific Sixties programming promote contentiousness among American youth? Bodroghkozy (film and media studies, Univ. of Alberta) investigates this question, focusing on two particularly socially relevant Sixties TV series, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Mod Squad. The author, who had input from the Smothers Brothers in her discussion of their CBS TV series and its controversial cancellation, includes several photos from their archives. She also offers a noteworthy chronology of social and media events that characterize the era covered in the book (1966-71). Recommended for academic library communications and television media collections. David M. Lisa, Wayne P.L., NJ
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Bodroghkozy inspects TV's portrayal 1960s youth conterculture. She notes, correctly, that hippies on the tube were generally much more appealing than their genuine, gentle, relatively unwashed, real-life counterparts. Her exploration of the discrepancy between youth culture as it unfolded on the streets and how it was packaged as lowest-common-denominator mass entertainment verges on explaining the persistent, superficial nostalgia for those kooky '60s. Sixties mavens will give her extra points for reproducing a vintage comic strip by Chicago's Skip Williamson, one of the cleverest of the era's underground cartoonists, including loads of stuff about the Monkees, and offering a disquisition on Dragnet illustrated by a still from the highly regarded "Blue Boy" episode. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
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