Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Look back in anchor : Diane English's Murphy Brown and the culture wars -- From rage to riches : Roseanne Barr and Roseanne -- Walking and talking as fast as they can : Amy Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore Girls -- The vajayjay monologues : the prime-time empire of Shonda Rhimes -- Sitcom and the single girl : Tina Fey's 30 Rock, Liz Meriwether's New Girl, and Mindy Kaling's The Mindy Project -- A voice of a generation : Lena Dunham's Girls -- Gross encounters : Inside Amy Schumer and Broad City -- Crime family values : Jenji Kohan's Weeds and Orange Is the New Black -- Body politic : Jill Soloway's Transparent -- Epilogue.…”

Table of Contents: “…-- That's Don Fey -- Climbing Old Rag Mountain -- Young Men's Christian Association -- The Windy City, full of meat -- My honeymoon, or, A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again either -- The secrets of Mommy's beauty -- Remembrances of being very very skinny -- Remembrances of being a little bit fat -- A childhood dream, realized -- Peeing in jars with boys -- I don't care if you like it -- Amazing, gorgeous, not like that -- Dear Internet -- 30 Rock : an experiment to confuse your grandparents -- Sarah, Oprah, and Captain Hook -- There's a drunk midget in my house -- A celebrity's guide to celebrating the birth of Jesus -- Juggle this -- The mother's prayer for its daughter -- What turning forty means to me -- What should I do with my last five minutes?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Real and William M. Kunz -- 30 Rock and the Satirical Representation of the Television Industry / Lauren Bratslavsky -- Nothing New Under the Sun: The Re-Implementation of 80s Sitcom Tropes in NBC's This is Us / Novotny Lawrence -- Children and Television: A Special Audience for a Special Medium / Dafna Lemish -- A Political Economic Approach / Eileen Meehan -- Women's Reception of Television / Andrea Press and Sarah Johnson -- Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic: The Self / Julianne Newton -- International Case Studies -- Television in Latin America: Stages of Transition / John Sinclair -- Change and Tranformation in South African Television / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli -- Television in the Middle East / Joe Kahlil -- Television in China: History, Political Economy and Ideology / Yuezhi Zhao and Guo Zhenzhi.…”
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