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The Lonely Nineties: Visions of Community in Contemporary Us Television

The Lonely Nineties: Visions of Community in Contemporary Us Television

Arras, Paul

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TelevisionAnthropologyFilm Studies

ISBN10: 3030065863
ISBN13: 9783030065867
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 26 2019
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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