附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index.
They Also Serve Who Only Sit and Watch -- A Night on the Town-At Home? -- Survival of the Nicest -- ... As Long As We Both Shall Laugh -- Ozzie and Harriet and Rock and Roll -- Looking Out the Picture Window -- Keeping It in the Family -- There's No Place Like Work -- Playtime for the Grown-ups -- Movin' On Up? -- Fun City -- Back to the Drawing Board -- . Breaking and Entering.
摘要:"This comprehensive study of the most successful television comedies - including domestic sitcoms, workplace comedies, variety shows, late-night comedy, animated comedy and others - reveals that, unlike the comedy found in firm on stage, in comedy clubs and concert halls, television's presentation of comic characters and stories must negotiate a relationship with the more privatized and value-laden environment of the American home that it enters."--Jacket.
