Jason Mittell - Genre and Television, American Studies
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GENRE
and
TELEVISION
GENRE
and
TELEVISION
From Cop Shows to Cartoons
in American Culture
Jason Mittell
ROUTLEDGE
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Published in 2004 by
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109 87654321
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mittell, Jason.
Genre and television: from cop shows to cartoons in American culture / by Jason Mittell.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-415-96902-6 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-415-96903-4 (pbk.: alk.paper)
1. Television serials—United States. 2. Television program genres—United States. I. Title.
PN1992.3.U5 M55 2004
791.45’6—dc22
2003027169
Portions of this book have appeared in earlier versions in the following publications:
Chapter 1, “A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory,”
Cinema Journal
, 40:3, Spring
2001, 3-24.
Chapter 2, “Before the Scandals: The Radio Precedents of the Quiz Show Genre,” in
The
Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of US Radio Broadcasting
, edited by Michele
Hilmes and Jason Loviglio (New York: Routledge, 2002), 319-42.
Chapter 3, “The Great Saturday Morning Exile: Scheduling Cartoons on Television’s
Periphery in the 1960s,” in
Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American
Culture
, edited by Carol Stabile and Mark Harrison (New York: Routledge, 2003), 33-54.
Chapter 4, “Audiences Talking Genre: Television Talk Shows and Cultural Hierarchies,”
Journal of Popular Film and Television
, 31:1, Spring 2003, 36-46.
Chapter 6, “Cartoon Realism: Genre Mixing and the Cultural Life of
The Simpsons
,”
The
Velvet Light Trap
#47, Spring 2001, 15-28.
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