Explores the many ways that prime-time television played a central role in the social conflicts of the 1960's in America.
Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat 's Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway . A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Har…
""Horrible White People" explores genre, gender, and whiteness in television"-- At the same time that right-wing political figures like Donald Trump were elected and reactionary socio-economic policies like Brexit were voted into law, representations of bleakly comic white frag…
""Horrible White People" explores genre, gender, and whiteness in television"-- At the same time that right-wing political figures like Donald Trump were elected and reactionary socio-economic policies like Brexit were voted into law, representations of bleakly comic white frag…
1. Irony and incongruity in American humor -- 2. Frontiers, suburbs, politics, and poop : setting, episodic structure, and the American carnivalesque in the Southwest humorists and animated television programs -- 3. No laughing matter : the relationship between American humor an…
