Television's Moment

Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution

von Christina Von Hodenberg

342 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country's population. This book explores television's impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences. The shows in focus - Till Death Us Do Part in Britain, All in the Family in the United States, and One Heart and One Soul in West Germany - centered on a bigoted anti-hero and his family. Between 1966 and 1979 they saturated popular culture, and managed to accelerate as well as deradicalize value changes and collective attitudes regarding gender roles, sexuality, religion, and race.

• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Fernsehen, TV
• ISBN: 9781785335051
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2017
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books