British TV Comedies
Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies
Birgit Neumann editor Juergen Kamm editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:12th Nov '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. It provides in-depth analyses of major comedies, systematically addressing their generic properties, filmic history, humour politics and cultural impact.
“This volume is sensitive to identity formations involving social class, gender, ethnicity, race, and factory labour. … The transnational authors of British TV Comedies, British and German, building on this expanding research, have elevated television comedy to a medium worthy of transcultural, cultural and political consideration for scholarly and general audiences.” (Marcia Landy, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Issue 2, September, 2016)
ISBN: 9781137552945
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 5759g
363 pages
1st ed. 2016