Cullen Jim Cullen

Those Were the Days (eBook, ePUB)

Why All in the Family Still Matters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1971 and 1979, All in the Family was more than just a wildly popular television sitcom that routinely drew 50 million viewers weekly. It was also a touchstone of American life, so much so that the living room chairs of the two main characters have spent the last 40 years on display at the Smithsonian. How did a show this controversial and boundary-breaking manage to become so widely beloved?Those Were the Days is the first full-length study of this remarkable television program. Created by Norman Lear and produced by Bud Yorkin, All in the Family dared to address such taboo topics as rape, abortion, menopause, homosexuality, and racial prejudice in a way that no other sitcom had before. Through a close analysis of the sitcom s four main characters boorish bigot Archie Bunker, his devoted wife Edith, their feminist daughter Gloria, and her outspoken liberal husband Mike Jim Cullen demonstrates how All in the Family was able to bridge the generation gap and appeal to a broad spectrum of American viewers in an age when a network broadcast model of television created a shared national culture.Locating All in the Family within the larger history of American television, this book shows how it transformed the medium, not only spawning spinoffs like Maude and The Jeffersons, but also helping to inspire programs like Roseanne, Married... with Children, and The Simpsons. And it raises the question: could a show this edgy ever air on broadcast television today?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978805798
• Artikelnr.: 72347768

Autorenporträt

JIM CULLEN is the author of numerous books, including The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (2003) and Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions (2012). A resident of Hastings on Hudson, New York, he has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Sarah Lawrence College, and is a longtime History teacher at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Broad(cast) Humor
1          Situation Comedy, Situation Tragedy: The Transitional World of
All in the Family
2          The Revolution, Televised: Origins of the Family
3          Fuzzy Reception: Meeting the Bunkers
4          Producing Comedy: Making All in the Family
5          The Character of Home: Chez Bunker
6          Not Bad for a Bigot: The Making of Archie Bunker
7          A Really Great Housewife: The Character of Edith Baines Bunker
8          Left In: The Liberal Arts of Michael Stivic
9          "Little Girl" to Mother: The Working-Class Feminism of Gloria
Bunker Stivic
10        Family Resemblance: The Rise and Fall of the Lear Television
Empire
Conclusion: Just Like Us
Acknowledgments
Index