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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Tison Pugh Despite the progressive ambitions announced in its title, the sitcom Modern Family (ABC, 2009–) has been excoriated by many viewers for its purported conservatism and reactionary politics. In particular, the program’s treatment of homosexuality, evident in the story line of gay couple...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 125–155.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Phoebe Bronstein This article examines The Andy Griffith Show (CBS, 1960–68) within the context of civil rights news reporting and articulates how the sitcom used humor to reenvision and rehabilitate the South in its safer white image. By 1960, due to civil rights news coverage, racism could...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (3 (96)): 33–61.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Douglas S. Ishii The “ Modern Family effect,” a reference to the ABC family sitcom that premiered in 2009, first emerged to describe the program’s ratings success and then shifted in meaning to discuss its seemingly bipartisan depiction of same-sex marriage. This convergence of television’s...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 27–59.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Rebecca Wanzo Issa Rae's web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (2011–13), initially posted on YouTube, and Lena Dunham's Girls (HBO, 2012–) are examples of the precarious-girl comedy in the new millennium. These sitcoms depict women experiencing a prolonged girlhood produced not only...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 31–61.
Published: 01 December 2019
... and the private sphere of the home. These newly blurred boundaries had profound implications for postwar conceptions of gender, home, and family. Through both form and content, programs as wide-ranging as the science-fiction anthology The Twilight Zone (CBS, 1959–64) and domestic sitcoms The George Burns...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Taylor Cole Miller Abstract At the same time the 1960s sitcom Bewitched aired in reruns next to drag queens on LOGOtv, a cable channel targeted to LGBTQ viewers, it also aired on the former National Christian Network channel (FamilyNet) immediately preceding a lineup of church programs featuring...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 102–123.
Published: 01 September 1993
... oddity as well as their corporate strength. Nina Auerbach2 On December 20, 1990, in a brief, three-sentence article reporting on a new, 50 million dollar deal between Mozark Productions Inc. and CBS, the then five-year-old sitcom Designing Women finally...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 102–131.
Published: 01 May 1994
... but tender-hearted bookseller), and Nate (an African Amer- ican police detective who ultimately fathers her child and then tragically dies). Yet, in sharp contrast to the characters in most sitcoms or dramatic series, Molly Dodd is ultimately a solitary figure. Despite the importance of the people...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 45–93.
Published: 01 May 2000
... shows were touted as more “literate,” more stylistically complex, and as offering more char- acter development than most sitcoms. This elevation of the situation comedy to “quality” status relied upon highly gendered representations...
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Camera Obscura (1994) 11-12 (3-1 (33-34)): 166–191.
Published: 01 May 1994
... like morning and evening news shows and “reality”-based programs like COPS usually work harder to produce this effect than fictional ones do; dramas like NYPD Blue or ER produce it more self-consciously than traditional series like Matlock or than most sitcoms...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 107–139.
Published: 01 December 2023
...), not only a groundbreaking television program but also one that highlights the foundational conjunctions and disjunctions between women's authorship and performance in television (given the slippage between Lucy Ricardo, the sitcom character, and Lucille Ball, the head of Desilu Productions...
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Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (2 (65)): 166–172.
Published: 01 September 2007
... when the latter wasn’t explicitly thematized (and it rarely was), it could still haunt the workplace families of “feminist sitcoms,” since, as Lauren Rabinovitz claims in her study of the genre, “women desiring women [is] the repressed aspect of female friendship throughout...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (2 (47)): 230–231.
Published: 01 September 2001
...: University of California Press, 2000. Smith, Susan. Hitchcock: Suspense, Humour, and Tone. London: British Film Institute, 2000. Staiger, Janet. Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era. New York: New York University Press, 2000. Street, Sarah. British Cinema...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 155–183.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the dramedy Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004 12), with its serialized plots about the ostensibly scandalous lives of suburban white women. The docusoap s deployment of some sitcom conventions which have always revolved around notions of familial relations therefore contributes to the production...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 185–195.
Published: 01 May 2015
... production values only contribute. And unlike in sitcoms, the clumsy style of cinema verité is not used to indicate reality. In this sense, casting is everything. The term unscripted needs to be deconstructed. Perhaps a better term would be prescripted in the sense that the real people...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (3 (54)): 131–175.
Published: 01 December 2003
... that poses the question: What kind of mother does the cinema of the 1950s make? More specifically, what happens if we understand 1950s film melodramas as offer- ing oblique, but active contestation of the world of television fam- ily sitcoms? Surely, Cathy Whitaker functions as an icon...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 109–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of these social issues into the prime-­time sitcom, start- ing with All in the Family (CBS, 1971 – 79), was treated by critics as “The Soap Opera Is a Hell of an Exciting Form”  • 113 unprecedented and almost universally lauded.10 Even before Mary Hartman, Lear’s approach...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 241–245.
Published: 01 December 1989
... one. The other development is more familiar to me from cultural studies than from cinema scholarship, and it involves the use of “the female spectator” as a myth of academic pleasure -in particular genres (soaps and sitcoms are favorites), in predicated modes of “consumption...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., or episodes of sitcoms, but to a gen- eral cultural memory of the time.31 Here Haynes’s appropriation functions less as a recontextualization or subversion of corporate Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics • 73 media than as a historicizing method to present the cultural con...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 157–167.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., 2012 17), and Insecure. As suggested by this essay s opening anecdote about Inse- cure s multiple intertextual references to theme songs from black- cast sitcoms, what is especially fascinating is that each of these shows advances distinct musical sensibilities that reinforce its nar- rative form...