Author : Josh Ozersky
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809325078
Turbulent times were televised throughout the sitcom's golden age.
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Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2003
Category :
ISBN : 9780809388851
Author : Norman Lear
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0143127969
The legendary creator of iconic television programs All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear remade our television culture, while leading a life of unparalleled political, civic, and social involvement. Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, this is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led.
Author : Carroll O'Connor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : Actors
ISBN : 0671017608
A memoir in which actor Carroll O'Connor recalls his life, discussing his service in the merchant marine during World War II, his education and early career in Dublin, and his years on "All in the Family"; and sharing the painful story of his son's cocaine addiction and suicide.
Author : Sean Campbell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476602557
Archie Bunker, George Jefferson, Maude--the television sitcom world of the 1970s was peopled by the creations of Norman Lear. Beginning in 1971 with the premier of All in the Family, Lear's work gave sitcoms a new face and a new style. No longer were families perfect and lives in order. Mostly blue-collar workers and their families, Lear's characters argued, struggled, uttered sometimes shocking opinions and had no problem contributing to--or at least, acknowledging--the turmoil so shunned by 1960s television. Significantly, not only did Lear address difficult issues, but he did so through successful programming. Week after week, Americans tuned in to see the family adventures of the Bunkers, the Jeffersons, and Sanford and Son. With a thorough analysis of his sitcoms, this volume explores Norman Lear's memorable production career during the 1970s. It emphasizes how Lear's shows reflected the political and cultural milieu, and how they addressed societal issues including racism, child abuse and gun control. The casting, production and behind-the-screen difficulties of All in the Family, Sanford & Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons and One Day at a Time are discussed. Each show is examined from inception through series finale. Interviews with some of the actors and actresses such as Rue McClanahan of Maude and Marla Gibbs from The Jeffersons are included.
Author : Norman Lear
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0789339730
All in the Family creator Norman Lear takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sitcom on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The face of television was changed forever in 1971 with the premiere of All in the Family. The working-class Bunker family of Queens, New York—lovable bigot Archie (Carroll O'Connor), his long-suffering “dingbat” wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), their liberal daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers), and son-in-law Mike "Meathead" Stivic (Rob Reiner)—instantly became, and half a century later still are, four of the most iconic characters in television. In All in the Family: The Show that Changed Television, Norman Lear shares his take on fifty essential episodes that exemplify why the show remains as funny and relevant as ever. Its boundary-pushing approach to hot-button topics is examined with commentary from co-stars O’ Connor, Stapleton, Reiner, and Struthers, as well as writers, directors, and guest stars from the show. With previously unseen notes from Lear, script pages, production designs, and a foreword by super-fan Jimmy Kimmel, this book is the ultimate companion to the seminal series and a must for fans of Lear’s shows and television comedy. “Norman Lear,” said New Yorker critic Michael Arlen, “has a feel for what people want to see before they know they want to see it.” All in the Family, like all of the Lear shows that followed, was a turning point in television’s handling of taboo subjects such as race relations, feminism, homosexuality, war, religion, gun control, social inequity, and other controversial subjects, all of which remain in the news today.
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 1981-01-06
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Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780819155726
This comprehensive work, along with its companion volume (see listing below), provides a thorough review of modern capitalism by some of today's most knowledgeable scholars. Contributors include: Peter L. Berger, Boston University; Samuel McCracken, Boston University; Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard University; Edgar K. Browning, Texas A & M University; Walter D. Connor, Boston University; Alan M. Kantrow, Harvard Business Review; Laura L. Nash, Harvard University's Center for Business and Government; Richard John Neuhaus, Rockford Institute's Center on Religion and Society; Stephen Miller, author of Special Interest Groups in American Politics; Marc F. Plattner, author of Rousseau's State of Nature; Delba Winthrop, Harvard University. Co-published with the Institute for Educational Affairs.
Author : L. Benjamin Rolsky
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231550421
For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by “culture wars” waged between religious conservatives and secular liberals. In most instances, Protestant conservatives have been cast as the instigators of such warfare, while religious liberals have been largely ignored. In this book, L. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left into action. The creator of comedies such as All in the Family and Maude, Lear was spurred to found the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way in response to the rise of the religious right. Rolsky offers engaged readings of Lear’s iconic sitcoms and published writings, considering them as an expression of what he calls the spiritual politics of the religious left. He shows how prime-time television became a focus of political dispute and demonstrates how Lear’s emergence as an interfaith activist catalyzed ecumenical Protestants, Catholics, and Jews who were determined to push back against conservatism’s ascent. Rolsky concludes that Lear’s political involvement exemplified religious liberals’ commitment to engaging politics on explicitly moral grounds in defense of what they saw as the public interest. An interdisciplinary analysis of the definitive cultural clashes of our fractious times, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left foregrounds the foundational roles played by popular culture, television, and media in America’s religious history.
Author : Josh Ozersky
Publisher : Ig Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780970312570
The definitive guide to all things meat in New York, Meat Me in Manhattan takes readers on a whirlwind tour of what the greatest restaurant city in the world has to offer to the discerning carnivore. Readers will learn what meat is, where it comes and how to order it just the way they like it. Features include: the definitive New York hamburger; New York's famous delis; an interview with the fried chicken king of Harlem; and sections on exotic meats such as goat.
