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Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (TV Milestones Series)
Ken Feil
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Description for Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (TV Milestones Series)
Paperback. Examines the reception, formal strategies, production history, and ideological underpinnings of the groundbreaking comedy-variety show "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" (NBC, 1968-1973). Series: TV Milestones Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
The highest-rated network program during its first three seasons, comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC, 1968–1973) remains an often overlooked and underrated innovator of American television history. Audiences of all kinds - old and young, square and hip, black and white, straight and queer - watched Laugh-In, whose campy, anti-establishment aesthetic mocked other tepid and serious popular shows. In Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, author Ken Feil presents the first scholarly investigation of the series whose suggestive catch-phrases ""sock it to me,"" ""look that up in your Funk’n’Wagnalls,"" and ""here comes the judge"" became part of pop culture history.
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The highest-rated network program during its first three seasons, comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC, 1968–1973) remains an often overlooked and underrated innovator of American television history. Audiences of all kinds - old and young, square and hip, black and white, straight and queer - watched Laugh-In, whose campy, anti-establishment aesthetic mocked other tepid and serious popular shows. In Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, author Ken Feil presents the first scholarly investigation of the series whose suggestive catch-phrases ""sock it to me,"" ""look that up in your Funk’n’Wagnalls,"" and ""here comes the judge"" became part of pop culture history.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
Series
TV Milestones Series
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814338223
SKU
V9780814338223
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About Ken Feil
Ken Feil is senior scholar-in-residence in the Visual and Media Arts Department at Emerson College. He is the author of Dying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination and has most recently contributed to the collections Queer Love in Film and Television and Reading the Bromance (Wayne State University Press, 2014).
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