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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Introduction: The Aesthetics and Politics of British TV Comedy
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The 1950s and 1960s: Beginnings of the British Sitcom and the Satire Boom
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The 1970s and 1980s: New Loyalties, Histories and Collective Identities — Post-familiar Paradigms
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The 1990s: (Un)doing Gender and Race
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“This volume is sensitive to identity formations involving social class, gender, ethnicity, race, and factory labour. … The transnational authors of British TV Comedies, British and German, building on this expanding research, have elevated television comedy to a medium worthy of transcultural, cultural and political consideration for scholarly and general audiences.” (Marcia Landy, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Issue 2, September, 2016)
'British TV Comedy covers all the key material, including the conventions of the genre as well as the contexts of production and the public controversies, taking the reader on an academic journey from Hancock's Half Hour to Little Britain. The book is essential reading for anyone serious about British television comedy.' John Storey, University of Sunderland, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British TV Comedies
Book Subtitle: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies
Editors: Jürgen Kamm, Birgit Neumann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137552952
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55294-5Published: 12 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55295-2Published: 26 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 363
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Screen Studies, Media Studies, Film History, Media Research, Arts