Laughter In The Living Room
Subtitle: Television Comedy And The American Home Audience (Popular Culture and Everyday Life)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: November 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780820468457
Subjects: Media studies; Popular culture; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts/Dance; North America; Journalism; North American; Television - General; Television - History & Criticism; Situation comedies.; Televisieprogramma's.; Television comedies; United States; gtt
Description: "This comprehensive study of the most successful television comedies - including domestic sitcoms, workplace comedies, variety shows, late-night comedy, animated comedy and others - reveals that, unlike the comedy found in firm on stage, in comedy clubs and concert halls, television's presentation of comic characters and stories must negotiate a relationship with the more privatized and value-laden environment of the American home that it enters."--Jacket.