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Frasier

a cultural history

Frasier
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An edition of Frasier (2017)

Frasier

a cultural history

After America's most pompous barhound left the Cheer's gang in Boston, he returned to Seattle and found himself surrounded by an equally colorful cast of friends and family alike. For eleven seasons, radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane contended with his blue-collar ex-cop father Martin, English caretaker Daphne, coworker Roz, and his younger brother Niles. Looking at the world through Frasier's aristocratic, witty lens, the show explored themes of love, loss, friendship, and what it might mean to live a full life. Both fans and critics loved Frasier, and the show's 37 primetime Emmy wins are the most ever for a comedy series. In Frasier: A Cultural History, Joseph J. Darowski and Kate Darowski offer an engaging analysis of the long-running, award-winning show, offering insights into both the onscreen stories as well as the efforts behind the scenes to shape this modern classic. This volume examines the series as a whole, but also focuses on the show's key characters, including Eddie, the canine. Close looks at set design, class issues, and gender roles are also provided, along with opinionated reviews of all 264 episodes, highlighting the peaks and dips in quality across more than a decade of television. Despite the show's focus on an elitist intellectual--and his equally snooty brother--Frasier often embraced farce on a level previously unseen in American sitcoms, a mix of comedic elements that endeared it to viewers around the world. Frasier: A Cultural History will appeal to the show's many fans as well as to scholar of media, television, and popular culture.

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English
Pages
237

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Frasier: A Cultural History
2023, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Frasier
Frasier: A Cultural History
2017, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Frasier
Frasier: a cultural history
2017
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Making a classic
Frasier before Frasier
Frasier on his own
Three Cranes and a dog
Daphne and Roz
Under analysis
The evolutions are televised
Set design
Curating the spaces
Gender...and race
Conclusion: "Good night, Seattle!"
The episodes: an opinionated compendium.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-231) and index.

Series
The cultural history of television, Cultural history of television

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.45/72
Library of Congress
PN1992.77.F72 D38 2017, PN1992.77.F72D38

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 237 pages
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26931929M
ISBN 10
1442277963
ISBN 13
9781442277960
LCCN
2017001797
OCLC/WorldCat
973919529

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