Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy

The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one...
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Author: Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy by Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H.

Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy

€83,18

Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy

€83,18
Author: Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio's endless need for new material, at the same time integrating advertising into the show's humor. Through the character of the vain, cheap everyman, Benny created a fall guy, whose frustrated struggles with his employees addressed midcentury America's concerns with race, gender, commercialism, and sexual identity. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley contextualizes her analysis of Jack Benny and his entourage with thoughtful insight into the intersections of competing entertainment industries and provides plenty of evidence that transmedia stardom, branded entertainment, and virality are not new phenomena but current iterations of key aspects in American commercial cultural history.

Author: Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/10/2017
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780520295056

About the Author
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley is Professor in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of, among other books, At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture and the editor of Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing.

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