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Zusatztext "This volume is sensitive to identity formations involving social class! gender! ethnicity! race! and factory labour. ? The transnational authors of British TV Comedies! British and German! building on this expanding research! have elevated television comedy to a medium worthy of transcultural! cultural and political consideration for scholarly and general audiences." (Marcia Landy! Historical Journal of Film! Radio and Television! Issue 2! September! 2016) Informationen zum Autor Stephen Bourne, De Montfort University, UK Alexander Brock, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Paul Davies, University of Passau, Germany Rainer Emig, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany Marion Gymnich, University of Bonn, Germany John Hill, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Mary Irwin, Northumbria University, UK Philip Jacobi, University of Passau, Germany Juergen Kamm, University of Passau, Germany Stephan Karschay, University of Passau, Germany Richard Kilborn, University of Stirling, UK Lucia Krämer, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany Angela Krewani, Marburg University, Germany Bernd Lenz, University of Passau, Germany Oliver Lindner, University of Leipzig, Germany Brett Mills, University of East Anglia, UK Birgit Neumann, University of Duesseldorf, Germany Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Nora Plesske, TU Braunschweig, Germany Anette Pankratz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Joanna Rostek, University of Passau, Germany Gerold Sedlmayr, TU Dortmund University, Germany Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, Germany Dorothea Will, University of Passau, Germany Klappentext This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. It provides in-depth analyses of major comedies, systematically addressing their generic properties, filmic history, humour politics and cultural impact. Zusammenfassung This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies! ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. It provides in-depth analyses of major comedies! systematically addressing their generic properties! filmic history! humour politics and cultural impact. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Aesthetics and Politics of British TV Comedy; Juergen Kamm and Birgit Neumann PART I: THE 1950S AND 1960S: BEGINNINGS OF THE BRITISH SITCOM AND THE SATIRE BOOM 2. A Golden Age of British Sitcom? and ; Richard Kilborn 3. 'Your Little Game': Myth and War in (1968-1977); Bernd Lenz 4. 'The Struggle of Class against Class Is a What Struggle?' and Its Politics; Alexander Brock 5. : 'Everybody Out!' Gender, Politics and Class on the Factory Floor; Mary Irwin PART II: THE 1970S AND 1980S: NEW LOYALTIES, HISTORIES AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES - POST-FAMILIAR PARADIGMS 6. 'Sambo' and 'Snowflake': Race and Race Relations in ; Nora Plesske 7. 'You Snobs! You Stupid... Stuck-Up... Toffee-Nosed... Half-Witted... Upper-Class Piles of... Pus!' Basil Fawlty's Touch of Class and Other Hotel Matters in ; Paul Davies 8. Ignorant Master, Capable Servants: The Politics of and ; Juergen Kamm 9. Zany 'Alternative Comedy': vs. Margaret Thatcher; Eckart Voigts 10. The Uses of History in Blackadder; Gerold Sedlmayr 11. Black British Comedy: and the Changing Face of Television; Deirdre Osborne with some additional information from Stephen Bourne PART III: THE 1990S: (UN)DOING GENDER AND RACE 12. Laughing at Racism or Laughing with the Racists? The 'Indian Comedy' of ; Jochen Petzold 13. Exploding Family Values, Lampooning Feminism, Exposing Consumerism: ; Rainer Emig 14. Comic Strategies of Inclusion and 'Normalisation' in; Lucia Krämer 15. Subverting the Sitcom from Within: Form, Ideology and; John Hill 16. 'The Lady of ...
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"This volume is sensitive to identity formations involving social class, gender, ethnicity, race, and factory labour. ... The transnational authors of British TV Comedies, British and German, building on this expanding research, have elevated television comedy to a medium worthy of transcultural, cultural and political consideration for scholarly and general audiences." (Marcia Landy, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Issue 2, September, 2016)
