Parody and taste in postwar American television culture [electronic resource] / Ethan Thompson.

By: Thompson, EthanContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in television studies ; no. 1.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2011Description: x, 168 p. : illISBN: 9780203832936 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States | Television broadcasting -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Parody | Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 302.23/45 LOC classification: PN1992.3.U5 | T48 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (not-so) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : nasculinity 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 mid-century -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : nasculinity 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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