Sitcom

List of contents

Introduction: Comedy Genre, Humor Theory [Modern Family] 1. Understanding the Sitcom 2. A Critical/Cultural History of the Sitcom [I Love Lucy] 3. Comedy, Family, and Small Towns [The Andy Griffith Show] 4. Comedy, Sex, and Gender Identity [Sex and the City] 5. Comedy, Race, Ethnicity, and Religion [Black-ish] 6. Comedy, Televisuality, and Convergence [The Simpsons]

About the author

Jeremy G. Butler is Professor of Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He has published book chapters and articles on the sitcom in Journal of Film and Video and Cinema Journal. He is the author of Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture and Television Style.

Summary

In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre’s position as a major media artefact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the US.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy G. Butler, Jeremy G. (University of Alabama Butler
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2019
• EAN: 9781138850941
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85094-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Television Guidebooks; Routledge Television Guidebooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, STUDY AIDS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society