Parody and taste in postwar American television culture / Ethan Thompson.

Author/creator Thompson, Ethan
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionx, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesRoutledge advances in television studies ; no. 1
Contents Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (Not-So) fabulous Fifties -- The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at midcentury -- What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody -- The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : masculinity 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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010029422
ISBN9780415886383 (hbk)
ISBN9780203832936 (ebk)