Gustavo Pérez Firmat

A Cuban in Mayberry: Looking Back at America's Hometown

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Produktbeschreibung

This original and thorough discussion of a legendary American sitcom uses the experience of exile to reveal that The Andy Griffith Show's enduring appeal comes from the intimacy between person and place that viewers enjoy in Mayberry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 191
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780292739055
• ISBN-10: 0292739052
• Artikelnr.: 40786843

Autorenporträt

By Gustavo Perez Firmat

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Introduction: To the Fishing Hole
3. Part 1: The Place
* 1. A World unto Itself
* 2. Against Change
* 3. Stopping the Story
* 4. Great Pages in History
* 5. From R.F.D. to R.I.P.
* Interlude: The Road to Mayberry
4. Part 2: The People
* 1. Sheriff without a Gun (Andy)
* 2. Imagination (Mr. McBeevee)
* 3. Life Imitates Fife (Barney)
* 4. A Face in the Crowd (Mr. Schwump)
* 5. Growing Up, Growing Old (Opie and Floyd)
* 6. Old Geezers (Judd and Asa)
* 7. Mayberry Maidens (Aunt Bee, Helen, and Thelma Lou)
* 8. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Ernest T. Bass and the Darlings)
* 9. Otis Regrets (Otis Campbell)
* 10. Love in the Country (Gomer, Goober, and Howard)
* 11. Trashy Women (Daphne and Skippy)
5. Conclusion: Old Sam
6. Epilogue: A Cuban in Mayberry
7. Appendix: List of Episodes
8. Notes
9. Index