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Those Were the Days : Why All in the Family Still Matters / Jim Cullen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) : 9 color and 10 BW photographsContent type:
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  • 9781978805804
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.45/72 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Situation Comedy, Situation Tragedy -- 2. The Revolution, Televised -- 3. Fuzzy Reception -- 4. Producing Comedy -- 5. The Character of Home -- 6. Not Bad for a Bigot -- 7. A Really Great Housewife -- 8. Left In -- 9. “Little Girl” to Mother -- 10. Family Resemblance -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Between 1971 and 1979, All in the Family was more than just a wildly popular television sitcom that routinely drew 50 million viewers weekly. It was also a touchstone of American life, so much so that the living room chairs of the two main characters have spent the last 40 years on display at the Smithsonian. How did a show this controversial and boundary-breaking manage to become so widely beloved? Those Were the Days is the first full-length study of this remarkable television program. Created by Norman Lear and produced by Bud Yorkin, All in the Family dared to address such taboo topics as rape, abortion, menopause, homosexuality, and racial prejudice in a way that no other sitcom had before. Through a close analysis of the sitcom’s four main characters—boorish bigot Archie Bunker, his devoted wife Edith, their feminist daughter Gloria, and her outspoken liberal husband Mike—Jim Cullen demonstrates how All in the Family was able to bridge the generation gap and appeal to a broad spectrum of American viewers in an age when a network broadcast model of television created a shared national culture. Locating All in the Family within the larger history of American television, this book shows how it transformed the medium, not only spawning spinoffs like Maude and The Jeffersons, but also helping to inspire programs like Roseanne, Married. with Children, and The Simpsons. And it raises the question: could a show this edgy ever air on broadcast television today?
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Situation Comedy, Situation Tragedy -- 2. The Revolution, Televised -- 3. Fuzzy Reception -- 4. Producing Comedy -- 5. The Character of Home -- 6. Not Bad for a Bigot -- 7. A Really Great Housewife -- 8. Left In -- 9. “Little Girl” to Mother -- 10. Family Resemblance -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

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Between 1971 and 1979, All in the Family was more than just a wildly popular television sitcom that routinely drew 50 million viewers weekly. It was also a touchstone of American life, so much so that the living room chairs of the two main characters have spent the last 40 years on display at the Smithsonian. How did a show this controversial and boundary-breaking manage to become so widely beloved? Those Were the Days is the first full-length study of this remarkable television program. Created by Norman Lear and produced by Bud Yorkin, All in the Family dared to address such taboo topics as rape, abortion, menopause, homosexuality, and racial prejudice in a way that no other sitcom had before. Through a close analysis of the sitcom’s four main characters—boorish bigot Archie Bunker, his devoted wife Edith, their feminist daughter Gloria, and her outspoken liberal husband Mike—Jim Cullen demonstrates how All in the Family was able to bridge the generation gap and appeal to a broad spectrum of American viewers in an age when a network broadcast model of television created a shared national culture. Locating All in the Family within the larger history of American television, this book shows how it transformed the medium, not only spawning spinoffs like Maude and The Jeffersons, but also helping to inspire programs like Roseanne, Married. with Children, and The Simpsons. And it raises the question: could a show this edgy ever air on broadcast television today?

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)