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The Lonely Nineties = Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Lonely Nineties/ by Paul Arras.
Reminder of title:	Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television /
Author:	Arras, Paul.
Description:	X, 238 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Motion pictures and television. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93094-7
ISBN:	9783319930947

The Lonely Nineties = Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television /
Arras, Paul.

The Lonely NinetiesVisions of Community in Contemporary US Television /[electronic resource] :by Paul Arras. - 1st ed. 2018. - X, 238 p.online resource.

1. Watching TV after the Wall Came Down -- 2. Lonely Bowling and Other Critical Contexts -- 3. They Let You Just Sit There: The Failure of the Coffee Shop in Seinfeld, Friends, and Frasier -- 4. I’m Doing This My Own Way: Redeeming NYPD Blue’s Racist Hero -- 5. It Was a Different Time: Law & Order, White Rabbits, and the Decline of Sixties Radicalism -- 6. The Truth is Out There…and He Loves You: Depictions of Faith in The X-Files and Touched by an Angel -- 7. This Town Ain’t So Bad: Eternity in Heavenly Springfield with The Simpsons -- 8. TV after the Nineties.

This book examines the most popular American television shows of the nineties—a decade at the last gasp of network television’s cultural dominance. At a time when American culture seemed increasingly fragmented, television still offered something close to a site of national consensus. The Lonely Nineties focuses on a different set of popular nineties television shows in each chapter and provides an in-depth reading of scenes, characters or episodes that articulate the overarching “ideology” of each series. It ultimately argues that television shows such as Seinfeld, Friends, Law & Order and The Simpsons helped to shape the ways Americans thought about themselves in relation to their friends, families, localities, and nation. It demonstrates how these shows engaged with a variety of problems in American civic life, responded to the social isolation of the age, and occasionally imagined improvements for community in America. .

ISBN: 9783319930947

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-93094-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

839765
Motion pictures and television.

LC Class. No.: PN1992.63

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4

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