This updated and expanded anthology offers an engaging overview of one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming: the sitcom. Through an analysis of formulaic conventions, the contributors address critical identities such as race, gender, and sexuality, and overarching structures such as class and family. Organized by decade, chapters explore postwar domestic ideology and working-class masculinity in the 1950s, the competing messages of power and subordination in 1960s magicoms, liberated women and gender in 1970s workplace comedies and 1980s domestic comedies, liberal...

Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, 2nd Edition examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television and attempts to "flip the script" to combat the cynicism of today's television narratives and the way those stories influence public perceptions of education in America.