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  • Fearless Vulgarity

    Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship

    by Ken Feil ...
    Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
    The enduring queer feminist engagement with Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann's camp comedy legacy.Catalyzed by her notoriously "dirty," fabulously successful bestseller Valley of the Dolls, the "Jackie Susann Sixties" brimmed with camp comedy that now permeates contemporary celebrations of the author, from Pee-wee's Playhouse to RuPaul's Drag Race and Lee Daniels's Star. First ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

    by Ken Feil ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Examines the reception, formal strategies, production history, and ideological underpinnings of the groundbreaking comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.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 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Girls

    Tales from the Lanai

    by Taylor Cole Miller, Peter C. Kunze, Jessica Hoover, Kate Fortmueller, Andrew Owens, Claire Sewell, Beth L Boser, Jared Clayton Brown, Ashleé Clark, Ken Feil0, Ben Aslinger1, Alfred L. Martin Jr.3, Eleanor Patterson Jr.4 ...
    The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai is an accessible collection that explores the cultural, industrial, and historical impact of that beloved American sitcom. Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and Alfred L. Martin, Jr., this anthology brings together a diverse range of voices that model different media studies approaches to researching and critically analyzing television texts. The Golden Girls ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rolling

    Blackness and Mediated Comedy

    by Alfred L. Martin Jr., Anshare Antoine, Gerald R. Butters Jr., Ellen Cleghorne, Kelly Cole, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Ken Feil, Lisa Guerrero, Timothy Havens, Felicia D. Henderson0, Jacqueline Johnson1, Scott Poulson-Bryant2, Mel Stanfill3, Joshua Truelove4 ...
    Series series Comedy & Culture
    Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses.Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about double consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his theories, we know that Blackness resonates ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Tinker Belles and Evil Queens

    The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out

    by Sean P. Griffin ...
    The first book to address the interaction between the Walt Disney Company and the gay communityFrom its Magic Kingdom theme parks to its udderless cows, the Walt Disney Company has successfully maintained itself as the brand name of conservative American family values. But the Walt Disney Company has also had a long and complex relationship to the gay and lesbian community that is only now ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • We See Each Other

    A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

    by Tre'vell Anderson ...
    A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that's long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history's annals, and further contextualizes our present moment ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Saturday Night Live & American TV

    by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, Ron Becker ...
    Thought-provoking and "undeniably interesting" essays on this cultural institution of comedy and what it says about our society ( Booklist).Since 1975, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" has greeted late night–TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the careers of countless comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, ... Read more

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  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley ...
    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • How to Watch Television, Second Edition

    Edited by Ethan Thompson, Jason Mittell ...
    Series Book 3 - User's Guides to Popular Culture
    A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the presentWe all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, ... Read more

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  • Mad Men, Mad World

    Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s

    Edited by Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing ...
    Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV series. Scholars from across the humanities consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Essential HBO Reader

    by Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones ...
    Series series Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
    Essays on the history of HBO, a company designed to please audiences instead of advertisers, and the impact of its distinctive programming: "Recommended." — ChoiceThe founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s—when it debuted by telecasting a Paul Newman movie and an NHL game to 365 households in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—was a harbinger of the innovations that would transform television as ... Read more

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  • Hysterical!

    Women in American Comedy

    by Linda Mizejewski ...
    Susan Koppelman Award Winner: "A juicy read for those who love the many ways female comics use their art to question the patriarchy." — BustAmy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women didn't come ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus