Rube tube : CBS and rural comedy in the sixties

Rube tube : CBS and rural comedy in the sixties /

"Historian Sara Eskridge examines television's rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nicknamed the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Eskridge, Sara K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 2018
Subjects:
CBS Television Network > History.
Country life on television.
Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States > History and criticism.
Television programs > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > On television.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Communist Broadcasting System
  • Quiz Shows, Horse Operas, and the Confederacy
  • A New Sheriff in Town
  • The Country Broadcasting System
  • Rural Comedy: The Principles of Popularity
  • Rural Comedy and the Race-Free South
  • The Smothers Brothers and the Rural Safety Net
  • Massacre.

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