{"product_id":"the-sitcom-reader-america-re-viewed-still-skewed-9781438461304","title":"The Sitcom Reader: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mary M. Dalton | Laura R. Linder\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Television - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpdated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis updated and expanded anthology offers an engaging overview of one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming: the sitcom. Through an analysis of formulaic conventions, the contributors address critical identities such as race, gender, and sexuality, and overarching structures such as class and family. Organized by decade, chapters explore postwar domestic ideology and working-class masculinity in the 1950s, the competing messages of power and subordination in 1960s magicoms, liberated women and gender in 1970s workplace comedies and 1980s domestic comedies, liberal feminism in the 1990s, heteronormative narrative strategies in the 2000s, and unmasking myths of gender in the 2010s. From \u003ci\u003eI Love Lucy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Honeymooners\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eRoseanne\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCybill\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWill \u0026amp; Grace\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eTransparent\u003c\/i\u003e and many others in between, \u003ci\u003eThe Sitcom Reader\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive examination of this popular genre that will help readers think about the shows and themselves in new contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor access to an online resource created by Mary Dalton, which includes interviews with contributors and course lectures, visit: \u003ci\u003eThe Sitcom Reader\u003c\/i\u003e: A Companion Website @ https: \/\/build.zsr.wfu.edu\/sitcomreader\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46497662271639,"sku":"9781438461304","price":3882.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781438461304.webp?v=1769180309","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-sitcom-reader-america-re-viewed-still-skewed-9781438461304","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}