Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson

Broschiertes Buch

Satire TV

Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era

Herausgeber: Gray, Jonathan; Thompson, Ethan; Jones, Jeffrey P

Beschreibung

Satirical TV has become mandatory viewing for citizens wishing to make sense of the bizarre contemporary state of political life. Shifts in industry economics and audience tastes have re-made television comedy, once considered a wasteland of escapist humo

Autor

Jonathan Gray (Editor) Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson). Jeffrey P. Jones (Editor) Jeffrey P. Jones is Associate Professor of Communication & Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture and co-editor of The Essential HBO Reader. Ethan Thompson (Editor) Ethan Thompson is Professor of Media Arts at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He is the author of Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture and co-editor of Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory and Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era. He directed the documentary TV Family about a forgotten forerunner to reality television.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780814731994
• ISBN-10: 0814731996
• Artikelnr.: 25943084