Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (Not-So) fabulous Fifties
The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at midcentury
What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody
The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : masculinity and taste in Playboy's Penthouse
Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery
Black tie, straightjacket : Oscar Levant's sick life on TV
Conclusion : television for people who hate television?
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Parody and taste in postwar American television culture by Ethan Thompson. ISBN 9780415886383. Published by Routledge in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
