Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2017; Oxford University Press; Volume: 104; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jahist/jax415
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoA number of new television programs are addressing the history of American humor, from CNN's documentary series The History of Comedy, which aired in February 2017 and has continued with new episodes this summer, to Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here, a show based on William Knoedelseder's 2010 book of the same name. Both of these programs explore what scholars have described as the “golden age” of comedy in the United States—the 1970s, a decade that saw the reinvigoration of both stand-up performance and the television sitcom as media genres and cultural phenomena. The stand-up boom happened largely because of new entertainment venues, including an explosion of comedy clubs in most big cities, as well as several popular late-night talk shows. For sitcoms, the transformation was arguably dominated by the work of one auteur—the writer and producer Norman Lear, whose contributions to the medium influenced both the content and style of television comedy for decades.
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