Critiquing the sitcom : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Race, gender, and contested meanings in Julia / Aniko Bodroghkozy -- The Mary Tyler Moore show : women at home and at work / Serafina Bathrick -- I love Laverne and Shirley : lesbian narratives, queer pleasures, and television sitcoms / Alexander Doty -- Where everybody knows your name : Cheers and the mediation of cultures / Michelle Hilmes -- Structuralist analysis 1 : Bill Cosby and recoding ethnicity / Michael Real -- Roseanne : unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn -- The triumph of popular culture : situation comedy, postmodernism, and The Simpsons / Matthew Henry -- Sitcoms say good-bye : the cultural spectacle of Seinfeld's last episode / Joanne Morreale.…”

Writing television sitcoms / by Smith, Evan S. 1956-

The great TV sitcom book / by Mitz, Rick

Movie towns and sitcom suburbs : building Hollywood's ideal communities / by Rowley, Stephen, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Visions of community -- Movie towns -- Sitcom suburbs -- The bad suburb -- The fake town -- Constructing the movie town -- Deconstructing the movie town -- Conclusion: The perpetual suburb.…”

Camp TV : trans gender queer sitcom history / by Miller, Quinlan, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Camp TV and queer gender : sitcom history -- Queer gender and Bob Cummings : Hollywood camp TV -- Marriage schmarriage : sex and the single person -- Trans camp TV : methods for girl history -- Conclusion: Around-the-clock queer gender : digital camp TV.…”

Murphy Brown : anatomy of a sitcom / by Alley, Robert S., 1932-

Seinfeld, master of its domain : revisiting television's greatest sitcom /

Blockbuster TV : must-see sitcoms in the network era / by Staiger, Janet

Tweencom girls : gender and adolescence in Disney and Nickelodeon sitcoms / by Oppliger, Patrice A.

The women who made television funny : ten stars of 1950s sitcoms / by Tucker, David C., 1962-

Television mockumentary : reflexivity, satire and a call to play / by Hight, Craig

Table of Contents: “…Comedic traditions: satire, sitcom and comedy vérité --…”

Genre and performance : film and television /

Table of Contents: “…Contemporary comedy performance in British sitcom /…”

Hidden in plain sight : Jews and Jewishness in British film, television, and popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…"You don't cure a problem by sweeping it under the carpet" : Jews, sitcoms, and race relations in 1960s Britain /…”

How television shapes our worldview : media representations of social trends and change /

Table of Contents: “…Friendship and the single girl: what we learned about feminism and friendship from sitcom women in the 1960s and 1970s /…”

Television comedy and femininity : queering gender / by White, Rosie, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Queering postfeminism in contemporary American sitcom -- The Big Bang Theory: queering masculinity in American sitcom -- Smack the Pony: feminist negotiations in British sketch comedy -- Queering age: older women in British television comedy.…”

The next best thing : a novel / by Weiner, Jennifer

Welcome to the dreamhouse : popular media and postwar suburbs / by Spigel, Lynn

Table of Contents: “…The suburban home companion: television and the neighborhood ideal in postwar America -- Portable TV: studies in domestic space travel -- From domestic space to outer space: the 1960s fantastic family sitcom -- Outer space and inner cities: African American responses to NASA -- Seducing the innocent: childhood and television in postwar America -- Innocence abroad: the geopolitics of childhood in postwar kid strips -- High culture in low places: televisiion and modern art, 1950-1970 -- Barbies without Ken: femininity, feminism, and the art-culture system -- From the Dark Ages to the golden age: women's memories and television reruns -- Yesterday's future, tomorrow's home.…”

Beyond a joke : the limits of humour /

Table of Contents: “…Comic racism and violence / Michael Billig -- Race and ethnicity in popular humour / Dennis Howitt and Kwame Owusu-Bempah -- Humour and the conduct of politics / John Morreall -- Parody and decorum: permission to mock / Jerry Palmer -- Breaking the mould: conversations with Omid Djalili and Shazia Mirza / Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering -- Merry hell: humour competence and social incompetence / Ken Willis -- Privacy, embarrassment, and social power: British sitcom / Frances Gray -- Comedies of sexual morality and female singlehood / Deborah Chambers -- The ambiguities of comic impersonation / Michael Pickering and Sharon Lockyer.…”

The golden years of broadcasting : a celebration of the first 50 years of radio and TV on NBC / by Campbell, Robert, 1922-

Table of Contents: “…: Sports -- "Good night, David": News and special events -- Ten-ton pencils: Documentaries -- "It's Howdy Doody time": Children's shows -- Tune in tomorrow: Soap operas and quiz shows -- Fact, fiction, or pure fantasy: Dramatic specials -- Two on the aisle: world premieres -- Sitcom: Weekly comedy -- Your show of shows: Variety and entertainment -- "Heeeeeere's Johnny!"…”

Close encounters : film, feminism, and science fiction /

Table of Contents: “…Greenberg -- Ideal hadaly / Raymond Bellour -- Metropolis : mother-city--"Mittler"--Hitler / Roger Dadoun -- Metropolis, scene 103 / Enno Patalas -- Star Trek rerun, reread, rewritten : fan writing as textual poaching / Henry Jenkins -- From domestic space to outer space : the 1960s fantastic family sitcom / Lynn Spigel -- Friend's deather / Peter Wollen.…”