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Television's Moment: Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution
Christina Von Hodenberg
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Description for Television's Moment: Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution
Hardcover. Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. Num Pages: 348 pages, 19 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country’s population. This book explores television’s impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus – Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and One Heart and One Soul in West Germany – centered on a bigoted anti-hero and his family. Between 1966 and 1979 they saturated popular culture, and managed to accelerate as well as deradicalize ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782386995
SKU
V9781782386995
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99-15
About Christina Von Hodenberg
Christina von Hodenberg is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. She has taught at Berkeley and Freiburg and received a Humboldt Research Award in 2014. Her previous books include Konsens und Krise: Eine Geschichte der westdeutschen Medienöffentlichkeit, 1945 bis 1973 (Wallstein 2006) and Wo ‘1968’ liegt: Reform und Revolte in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik (co-edited with Detlef ... Read more
Reviews for Television's Moment: Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution
“Television scholars of all stripes will find much that is interesting in this book. Hodenberg blends thorough industrial history, textual analysis, and audience research in her examination of three iterations of a single television show…This book operates at the methodological intersection of cultural studies, social science, and television history, and the research is the better for it. This is a ... Read more