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008 980709s1998 nyu b 001 0 eng d
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100 1 $aStark, Steven D.
245 10 $aGlued to the set :$bthe 60 television shows and events that made us who we are today /$cSteven D. Stark.
260 $aNew York :$bDelta,$c1998, ©1997.
300 $aix, 466 pages ;$c20 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 409-447) and index.
505 0 $a1. What's so funny about Milton Berle? : the unacceptable ethnicity of the Texaco Star Theater -- 2. Howdy Doody and the debate over children's programming -- 3. Meet the Press : television's anachronism -- 4. I Love Lucy : the woman as TV superstar -- 5. Dragnet and the policeman as hero -- 6. Bishop Sheen's Life is Worth Living and the new American religion of television -- 7. Resistance to reality : Why Edward R. Murrow's See It Now didn't change television more -- 8. Today, Barbara Walters, and TV's definition of news -- 9. Disneyland and the creation of the seamless entertainment web -- 10. The secret of the Lawrence Welk Show -- 11. The Ed Sullivan Show and the era of big government -- 12. Gunsmoke and television's lost wave of westerns -- 13. American Bandstand and the clash of rock and TV -- 14. Twenty-One, the quiz scandal, and the decline of public trust -- 15. Leave it to Beaver and the politics of nostalgia -- 16. The Twilight Zone : science fiction as realism -- 17. The rise and fall of the televised presidential press conference -- 18. Perry Mason and the criminal lawyer as brief television hero -- 19. The Dick Van Dyke Show and the rise of upscale television -- 20. Space television -- 21. The Beverly Hillbillies and the rise of populist television -- 22. Assassination television -- 23. Mister Ed : how real were TV's escapist comedies? -- 24. The Dating Game, game shows, and the rise of tabloid TV -- 25. Walter Cronkite, the CBS Evening News, and the rise of news on television -- 26. The Monkees and TV's subversion of the 1960s -- -- 27. Mission: Impossible and Its cold war fight to save America -- 28. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and the fate of controversy on TV -- 29. Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and acceleration as a TV style.
505 0 $a30. Sesame Street : the last temnant of the counterculture -- 31. TV's biggest show : The Super Bowl -- 32. The Brady Bunch as television icon -- 33. All in the Family and the sitcom "revolution" -- 34. The Mary Tyler Moore Show and America's newest "families" -- 35. Masterpiece Theatre and the failure of PBS -- 36. Television's biggest scandal : the local news -- 37. The Tonight Show and its hold on America -- 38. 60 Minutes and the evolution of news to entertainment -- 39. TV's most self-congratulatory hit : Saturday Night Live -- 40. The miniseries as history : did Roots change America? -- 41. All My Children, soaps, and the feminization of America -- 42. The oddly winning dark sensibility of M*A*S*H -- 43. The hostage crisis as metaphor -- 44. Dallas and the rise of Republican mythology -- 45. Debating our politics : the Ronald Reagan show -- 46. CNN and the changing definition of news -- 47. Hill Street Blues and TV's new elite style -- 48. What MTV hath wrought -- 49. Bob Newhart as the embodiment of TV culture -- 50. Entertainment Tonight and the expansion of the tabloid, celebrity culture -- 51. The rorgotten promise of The Cosby Show -- 52. The Star Trek galaxy and its glimpse of TV's future -- 53. How Roseanne made trash TV respectable -- 54. How America's Funniest Home Videos tore down our wall -- 55. Hill-Thomas and the congressional hearing as miniseries -- 56. The Oprah Winfrey Show and the talk-show furor -- 57. A tale of two sitcoms -- 58. Home Shopping : commercialism as salvation -- 59. The innovations of ER and the fight for health-care reform -- 60. How Wheel of Fortune won the cold war -- Appendix : How I came up with the 60 shows.
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