Groove Tube - Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion

"Bodroghkozy is right-on when it comes to the details of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, " CBS's firing of us, and the surrounding controversy. Her observations are certainly worth taking the time to read."--Tom Smothers

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Turning on the Groove Tube

1. “Clarabell was the First Yippie”: The Television Generation from Howdy Doody to McLuhan

2. Plastic Hippies: The Counterculture on TV

3. “Every Revolutionary Needs a Color TV”: The Yippies, Media Manipulation, and Talk Shows

4. Smothering Dissent: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and the Crisis of Authority in Entertainment Television

5. Negotiating the Mod: How The Mod Squad Played the Ideological Balancing Act in Prime-Time

6. Make It Relevant: How Youth Rebellion Captured Prime-Time in 1970-1971

7. Conclusion: Legacies

Appendix: A Groove Tube Selective Chronology of the Years 1966 to 1971

Bibliography

About the author

Aniko Bodroghkozy

Summary

Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the time - such as The Monkees, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Mod Squad, this book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-led societal changes.

Product details

• Authors: Aniko Bodroghkozy, Bodroghkozy, Aniko Bodroghkozy
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2001
• EAN: 9780822326564
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2656-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 1134 g
• Illustrations: 34 b&w photographs
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 1960 bis 1969 n. Chr., Amerika, Medienwissenschaften, Regionalstudien