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

By: Thompson, Ethan.
Series: Routledge advances in television studies ; no. 1.Publisher: Routledge : New York, 2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 168 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780203832936 (ebk : PDF).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.Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification: 302.2345 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; Also available in print edition.
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?

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.