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Parody and taste in postwar American television culture / Ethan Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in television studies ; no. 1Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: x, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415886383 (hbk)
  • 9780203832936 (ebk)
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LOC classification:
  • PN1992.3.U5 T48 2011
Contents:
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?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

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