The Lonely Nineties Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television /

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 Lonel...

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Main Author: Arras, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Motion pictures and television.
United States-Study and teaching.
ISBN:9783319930947
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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