The Lonely Nineties Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television /

• Main Author: Arras, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; United States-Study and teaching.; Screen Studies.; American Culture.

This book examines the most popular American television shows of the nineties-a decade at the last gasp of network television's cultural dominance. At a time when American culture seemed increasingly fragmented, television still offered something close to a site of national consensus. The Lonel...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Watching TV after the Wall Came Down
• 2. Lonely Bowling and Other Critical Contexts
• 3. They Let You Just Sit There: The Failure of the Coffee Shop in Seinfeld, Friends, and Frasier
• 4. I'm Doing This My Own Way: Redeeming NYPD Blue's Racist Hero
• 5. It Was a Different Time: Law & Order, White Rabbits, and the Decline of Sixties Radicalism
• 6. The Truth is Out There...and He Loves You: Depictions of Faith in The X-Files and Touched by an Angel
• 7. This Town Ain't So Bad: Eternity in Heavenly Springfield with The Simpsons
• 8. TV after the Nineties.