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Tables of Contents for Critiquing the Sitcom
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
vii
Introduction: On the Sitcom
xi
Part One Television in the 1940s and 1950s
1
86
Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Woman's Narrative
7
18
George Lipsitz
Amos `n' Andy and the Debate over American Racial Integration
25
16
Thomas Cripps
Situation Comedy, Feminism, and Freud: Discourses of Gracie and Lucy
41
15
Patricia Mellencamp
Returning from the Moon: Jackie Gleason and the Carnivalesque
56
13
Virginia Wright Wexman
Sitcoms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker
69
18
Mary Beth Haralovich
Part Two Television in the 1960s
87
64
The Unworthy Discourse: Situation Comedy in Television
91
25
Paul Attallah
From Gauguin to Gilligan's Island
116
13
Laura Morowitz
``Is This What You Mean by Color TV?'' Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in Julia
129
22
Aniko Bodroghkozy
Part Three Television in the 1970s
151
58
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Women at Home and at Work
155
32
Serafina Bathrick
I Love Laverne and Shirley Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasures, and Television Sitcoms
187
22
Alexander Doty
Part Four Television in the 1980s
209
38
Where Everybody Knows Your Name Cheers and the Mediation of Cultures
213
11
Michelle Hilmes
Structuralist Analysis 1: Bill Cosby and Recoding Ethnicity
224
23
Michael Real
Part Five Television in the 1990s and Beyond
247
42
Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess
251
11
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn
The Triumph of Popular Culture Situation Comedy, Postmodernism, and The Simpsons
262
12
Matthew Henry
Sitcoms Say Good-bye: The Cultural Spectacle of Seinfeld's Last Episode
274
15
Joanne Morreale
Notes
289
32
Bibliography
321
18
Index
339