| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Parody and taste in postwar American television culture // Ethan Thompson. |
| Author: |
Thompson, Ethan. |
| Published: |
New York, NY :Routledge, : 2011., |
| Description: |
x, 168 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (Not-So) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at midcentury -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : masculinity and taste in Playboy's Penthouse -- Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery -- Black tie, straightjacket : Oscar Levant's sick life on TV -- Conclusion : television for people who hate television? |
| Subject: |
Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States. - |
| ISBN: |
9780415886383 (hbk.) : |