Philip Scepanski
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Very Special Episodes
Televising Industrial and Social Change
Edited by Jonathan Cohn and Jennifer Porst
Rutgers University Press
Very Special Episodes explores various examples of the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Through the study of this unique television format, this anthology traces the history of television’s engagement with many of the most important political, aesthetic, economic, and social movements that continue to challenge our society today.
- Copyright year: 2021
Very Special Episodes
Televising Industrial and Social Change
Edited by Jonathan Cohn and Jennifer Porst
Rutgers University Press
Very Special Episodes explores various examples of the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Through the study of this unique television format, this anthology traces the history of television’s engagement with many of the most important political, aesthetic, economic, and social movements that continue to challenge our society today.
- Copyright year: 2021
Tragedy Plus Time
National Trauma and Television Comedy
University of Texas Press
As the saying goes, “Comedy equals tragedy plus time,” but in the face of tragedies on a national scale, comedy becomes the medium through which audiences untangle accepted understandings of what it means to be American.
- Copyright year: 2021