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British TV Comedies

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Aesthetics and Politics of British TV Comedy
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    Chapter 2 A Golden Age of British Sitcom? Hancock’s Half Hour and Steptoe and Son
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    Chapter 3 ‘Your Little Game’: Myth and War in Dad’s Army
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    Chapter 4 ‘The Struggle of Class against Class is a What Struggle?’ Monty Python’s Flying Circus and its Politics
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    Chapter 5 The Rag Trade: ‘Everybody Out!’ Gender, Politics and Class on the Factory Floor
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    Chapter 6 ‘Sambo’ and ‘Snowflake’: Race and Race Relations in Love Thy Neighbour
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    Chapter 7 ‘You Snobs! You Stupid… Stuck-Up… Toffee-Nosed… Half-Witted… Upper-Class Piles of… Pus!’ Basil Fawlty’s Touch of Class and Other Hotel Matters in Fawlty Towers
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    Chapter 8 Ignorant Master, Capable Servants: The Politics of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
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    Chapter 9 Zany ‘Alternative Comedy’: The Young Ones vs. Margaret Thatcher
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    Chapter 10 The Uses of History in Blackadder
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    Chapter 11 Black British Comedy: Desmond’s and the Changing Face of Television
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    Chapter 12 Laughing at Racism or Laughing with the Racists? The ‘Indian Comedy’ of Goodness Gracious Me
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    Chapter 13 Exploding Family Values, Lampooning Feminism, Exposing Consumerism: Absolutely Fabulous
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    Chapter 14 Comic Strategies of Inclusion and ‘Normalisation’ in The Vicar of Dibley
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    Chapter 15 Subverting the Sitcom from Within: Form, Ideology and Father Ted
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    Chapter 16 ‘The Lady of the House Speaking’: The Conservative Portrayal of English Class Stereotypes in Keeping Up Appearances
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    Chapter 17 Family Life in Front of the Telly: The Royle Family
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    Chapter 18 Old Jokes: One Foot in the Grave, Comedy and the Elderly
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    Chapter 19 Spin, Swearing and Slapstick: The Thick of It
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    Chapter 20 Life is Stationary: Mockumentary and Embarrassment in The Office
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    Chapter 21 From Ever-Lusting Individuals to Ever-Lasting Couples: Coupling and Emotional Capitalism
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    Chapter 22 The Comic Nation: Little Britain and the Politics of Representation
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    Chapter 23 Laughing in Horror: Hybrid Genre and the Grotesque Body in Psychoville
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Title
British TV Comedies
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, January 2016
DOI 10.1057/9781137552952
ISBNs
978-1-349-55518-5, 978-1-137-55295-2, 978-1-137-55294-5
Editors

Jürgen Kamm, Birgit Neumann

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Country Count As %
Unknown 7 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 57%
Researcher 1 14%
Student > Postgraduate 1 14%
Unknown 1 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 5 71%
Social Sciences 1 14%
Unknown 1 14%