At a time when television offered limited opportunities for women, Donna Reed was an Oscar-winning Hollywood actress who became both producer (though largely uncredited) and star of her own television
The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS 1961–66) was a uniquely self-reflexive sitcom that drew on vaudevillian tropes at a time when vaudeville-based comedy variety was disappearing from television. At the same
Experts in ethnic studies, communications, and media studies offer essays analyzing representations of family, gender, class, race, and ethnicity in the American situation comedies since 1940. The ess
A unique and accessible account of the ways that advertising and promotional culture have grown and developed from the late 19th century through to the present, illuminating how advertising has adapt
A unique and accessible account of the ways that advertising and promotional culture have grown and developed from the late 19th century through to the present, illuminating how advertising has adapt
