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Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture [Revised Edition]
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Horace Newcomb

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Foreword to the Revised Edition
1. Beginning to Begin Again
2. The Situation Comedy of Paul Henning: Modernity and the American Folk Myth in The Beverly Hillbillies
3. The Comedy of Public Safety
4. Gleason's Push
5. Self-Reflexive at Last
6. What Was Broadcasting?
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Main Index
Index of Television Series
Index of Films Made for Theatrical Release

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