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BIG IDEAS IN TELEVISION
Reference list
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BIG IDEAS IN TELEVISION
Reference List
The Great Divide: Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the Rise of the Bad Fan 4
Emily Nussbaum
Us and Them 5David Sedaris
Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television 6George Carlin
The Amiable Madness of Green Acres 7Noel Murray
Brad Carrigan, American 8George Saunders
Empires of the New World (selection) 9Pamela Douglas, interview with Ted Sarandos
“Time to Go”: Dreaming of a Televised Future (selection) 10Dade Hayes
Hasta Siempre 11Jean Burnet
From “Lessons from Television” 12Susan Stewart
Pursuit of the Public Interest in the Vast Wasteland 13Walter J. Podrazik
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Nicole Chung
Control (selection) 15Frank Rose
The Age of Show Business (selection) 16Neil Postman
Judge in Simpson Trial Allows TV Camera in Courtroom 17David Margolick
To Remember History You Have to Repeat It 18Tony Hoagland
The Moon Hours 19E. B. White and others
Getting Dirty 20Mark Crispin Miller
The First Presidential Debate (selection) 21Alan Schroeder
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 22Gil Scott-Heron
The Missing Remote 23Diane Lockward
Dolls and Feelings: Jill Soloway’s Post-Patriarchal Television (selection) 24
Ariel Levy
Pop History on an Epic Scale: Roots 25Donald Bogle
Desperately Selling Soda 29Leslie Savan
The TV 30Ben Loory
Television, Reality, and Cold War Citizenship (selection) 31Alan Nadel
In the End, They Were Born on tv 33Douglas Kearney
Why Is “Everyman” a White Guy? 34Aziz Ansari
Kim’s Fairytale Wedding (selection) 35Kate Durbin
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The Great Divide: Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the
Rise of the Bad FanEmily Nussbaum
All in the Family, showBewitched, showBonanza, showBreaking Bad, showArchie Bunker, character in All in the FamilyLena Dunham, actorGreen Acres, showThe Honeymooners, showThe Jeffersons, showLassie, showNorman Lear, writer and producerMaude, showCarroll O’Connor, actorMickey Rooney, actor“rural purge” of 1970, television network actionThe Sopranos, showStarsky and Hutch, characters in the show Starsky & HutchTill Death Us Do Part, show
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Us and ThemDavid Sedaris
Elmer Fudd, character in Looney Tunes cartoons“Warning, Will. Danger, danger” reference to the show Lost in Space
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Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television
George Carlin
Johnny Carson, television personalityEd McMahon, television personalityDoc Severinsen, bandleader and musicianThe Tonight Show, show
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The Amiable Madness of Green AcresNoel Murray
The Beverly Hillbillies, showGreen Acres, showPeanuts, comic strip and animated television showPetticoat Junction, show
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Brad Carrigan, AmericanGeorge Saunders
Thomas Paine, eighteenth-century political theoristCasey Stengel, baseball player and manager
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Empires of the New World (selection)Pamela Douglas, interview with Ted Sarandos
Arrested Development, showBreaking Bad, showGame of Thrones, showGoogle, search engineHouse of Cards, showMad Men, showNetflix, media platformTed Sarandos, Netflix executiveThe Sopranos, showFrancis “Frank” Underwood, character in the show House of Cards
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“Time to Go”: Dreaming of a Televised Future (selection)
Dade Hayes
Blue’s Clues, showCaptain Kangaroo, showDora the Explorer, showDerek Jacobi, actorIn the Night Garden, showLittle Einsteins, showMister Rogers’ Neighborhood, showMy Friends Tigger & Pooh, showNeil Postman, criticPBS [Public Broadcasting Service], networkSesame Street, showTeletubbies, showKurt Vonnegut, writerAnne Wood, producer
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Hasta SiempreJean Burnet
Don Francisco, variety show hostJerry Springer Show, showWalter Mercado, television personalitySábado Gigante, showSyFy, network
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From “Lessons from Television”Susan Stewart
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Pursuit of the Public Interest in the Vast Wasteland
Walter J. Podrazik
Robert Altman, director, producer, and screenwriterThe Andy Griffith Show, showThe Atlantic, magazineBen Casey, showThe Bugs Bunny Show, showThe Dick Van Dyke Show, showDr. Kildare, showElizabeth R, showThe First Churchills, showFred W. Friendly, network executiveGilligan’s Island, showThe Hathaways, showJohn F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United StatesMasterpiece Theatre, showNewton Minow, FCC chairmanMonty Python’s Flying Circus, showSesame Street, showCharles Sopkin, writerThe Twilight Zone, showUpstairs, Downstairs, showThe Wonderful World of Color, show
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What I Learned from Kristi YamaguchiNicole Chung
Frank Deford, sportswriterMidori Ito, figure skaterClaudia Kishi, character in the Baby-Sitters Club book seriesMichelle Kwan, figure skaterJeremy Lin, basketball playerPower Rangers, showKristi Yamaguchi, figure skater
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Control (selection)Frank Rose
All in the Family, showAMC, networkAmerican Idol, showAvatar, filmArthur C. Clarke, writerCharles Dickens, nineteenth-century English writerBetty Draper, character in Mad MenDon Draper, character in Mad MenMad Men, showRupert Murdoch, network executivePeggy Olson, character in Mad MenStar Wars, film and film seriesTwitter, social media platformMatthew Weiner, writer
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The Age of Show Business (selection)Neil Postman
Bonanza, showWilliam Buckley, writer and political activistDallas, showThe Day After, showDynasty, showGunsmoke, showKojak, showTed Koppel, broadcast journalistMarshall McLuhan, criticMission: Impossible, showCarl Sagan, astronomer and writerStar Trek, show and film seriesElie Wiesel, writer and political activist
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Judge in Simpson Trial Allows TV Camera in Courtroom
David Margolick
American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU], organizationMarcia Clark, prosecutorCourt TV, networkBillie Sol Estes, businessman and convicted swindlerLance A. Ito, judge for Los Angeles County Superior CourtMike Royko, journalistSam Sheppard, physician and homicide suspectO. J. Simpson, actor, football player, and sportscaster
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To Remember History You Have to Repeat It
Tony Hoagland
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The Moon HoursE. B. White and others
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, astronautNeil Armstrong, astronaut“Blue Moon,” songJames Kitchell, producerJohn Lindsay, mayor of New York CityTony Messuri, television directorRichard M. Nixon, thirty-seventh president of the United States
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Getting DirtyMark Crispin Miller
Advertising Age, magazineFred Danzig, magazine columnist and editorShield, deodorant soap
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The First Presidential Debate (selection)Alan Schroeder
Archibald Cox, law professorWalter Cronkite, broadcast journalistLeonard Goldenson, network executiveJacqueline Kennedy, First Lady of the United StatesJohn F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United StatesNikita Khrushchev, Soviet statesmanHenry Cabot Lodge, 1960 US vice presidential nomineeSig Mickelson, network executiveRichard M. Nixon, thirty-seventh president of the United StatesWilliam Paley, network executiveLee Radziwill, actor and sister of Jacqueline KennedyRobert Sarnoff, network executiveArthur Schlesinger Jr., critic and historianHoward K. Smith, journalistOliver Treyz, network executiveTheodore White, writer
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The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedGil Scott-Heron
Spiro Agnew, US vice president under Richard M. NixonThe Beverly Hillbillies, showBullwinkle, character in the cartoon show The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and FriendsGlen Campbell, musicianJohnny Cash, musicianGreen Acres, showHooterville Junction, fictional place in Petticoat JunctionEngelbert Humperdinck, musicianTom Jones, musicianJulia, character in the show JuliaFrancis Scott Key, songwriterWillie Mays, baseball playerSteve McQueen, actorJohn Mitchell, US attorney generalRichard M. Nixon, thirty-seventh president of the United StatesJacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United StatesRare Earth, bandSchaefer Award Theatre, showSearch for Tomorrow, showJim Webb, musicianRoy Wilkins, civil rights activistNatalie Wood, actorWhitney Young, civil rights activist
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The Missing RemoteDiane Lockward
ER, showJudge Judy [Sheindlin], television personalityNYPD Blue, show
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Dolls and Feelings: Jill Soloway’s Post-Patriarchal Television (selection)
Ariel Levy
Amazon, multimedia companyCarrie Brownstein, actor, musician, and writerGlee, showGaby Hoffmann, actorJane Lynch, actorRyan Murphy, director, producer, and writerTransparent, show
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Pop History on an Epic Scale: RootsDonald Bogle
Muhammad Ali, boxerDebbie Allen, actorJohn Amos, actorMaya Angelou, writerEd Asner, actorThe Arthur Godfrey Show, showThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, novel by Ernest J. GainesBackstairs at the White House, showBever-Leigh Banfield, actorBilly: Portrait of a Street Kid, showClaire Bloom, actorThe Brady Bunch, showMarlon Brando, actor, civil rights activist, and directorJames Broderick, actorGeorg Stanford Brown, actor and directorLeVar Burton, actorGodfrey Cambridge, actorIrene Cara, actorDiahann Carroll, actor and singerBernie Casey, actorRosalind Cash, actorCeremonies in Dark Old Men, play by Lonne Elder III and showOlivia Cole, actorChuck Connors, actorScatman Crothers, actorOssie Davis, actorLynda Day George, actorRuby Dee, actorOlivia de Havilland, actorDummy, showSandy Duncan, actorThe Ed Sullivan Show, showLonne Elder III, playwrightEmmy AwardsFather Knows Best, showShirley Jo Finney, actor
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Pop History on an Epic Scale: Roots, continued
Henry Fonda, actor and producerRedd Foxx, actor and comedianFreedom Road, showAl Freeman Jr., actorThe Garry Moore Show, showGoldie and the Boxer, showGoldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood, showGone with the Wind, novel by Margaret Mitchell and filmGood Times, showLouis Gossett Jr., actorGreen Eyes, showLorne Greene, actorRosey Grier, actorMoses Gunn, actorAlex Haley, writerHallelujah, Baby!, Broadway showLynn Hamilton, actorDorian Harewood, actorFay Hauser, actorEileen Heckart, actorSherman Hemsley, actorHilly Hicks, actorThe Hollow Image, showRobert Hooks, actorI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, memoir by Maya Angelou and showThe Jack Paar Show, showLawrence-Hilton Jacobs, actorThe Jeffersons, showJim Crow lawsJames Earl Jones, actorGeorge Kennedy, actorThe Killing Affair, showKing, showCoretta Scott King, civil rights activistMartin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist, minister, and writerKunta Kinte, character in RootsCloris Leachman, actorThe Leslie Uggams Show, showAvon Long, actor
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Pop History on an Epic Scale: Roots, continued
Malcolm X, civil rights activistAbby Mann, director and writerStan Margulies, directorThe Minstrel Man, showElizabeth Montgomery, actorLynne Moody, actorDebbi Morgan, actorGilbert Moses, directorRoger Mosley, actorThad Mumford, director, producer, and writerNewsweek, magazineBrock Peters, actorThalmus Rasulala, actorRobert Reed, actorHari Rhodes, actor and writerBeah Richards, actorLloyd Richards, actor and directorRich Man, Poor Man, showGeorge Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi PartyEsther Rolle, actorRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, showRoots: The Next Generations, showRoots: The Saga of an American Family, showRichard Roundtree, actorLou Rudolph, network executiveWilma Rudolph, athleteSanford and Son, showStan Shaw, actorFred Silverman, network executiveNicole Brown Simpson, wife of O. J. SimpsonO. J. Simpson, actor, football player, and sportscasterMadge Sinclair, actorSing Along with Mitch, showSally Bedell Smith, broadcast journalistKristoff St. John, actorLarry Sullivan, network executiveBeverly Todd, actorCicely Tyson, actorLeslie Uggams, actor
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Pop History on an Epic Scale: Roots, continued
Ben Vereen, actorDouglas Turner Ward, actorThe Wedding Band, showFlip Wilson, actor and comedianPaul Winfield, actorDavid Wolper, producer and writerRen Woods, actor
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Desperately Selling SodaLeslie Savan
Woody Allen, actor, comedian, director, producer, and writerBenetton, brand of clothingBIC, brand of perfumeBillboard, magazineBuzz, showDavid Byrne, musicianEric Clapton, musicianCoke / Coca-Cola, brand of soft drinkAndraé Crouch, musicianWhitney Houston, actor, producer, and singerMichael Jackson, actor, dancer, producer, singer, and songwriterLevi’s, brand of jeans“Like a Prayer,” songMadonna, actor, dancer, producer, singer, and songwriterGeorge Michael, singerMTV, networkPaul Newman, activist, actor, director, and producerPepsi, brand of soft drinkRevolution, showRolling Stone, magazineRod Serling, television personality and writerSwatch, branch of watchWarner Brothers, entertainment companyNeil Young, musician
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The TVBen Loory
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Television, Reality, and Cold War Citizenship (selection)
Alan Nadel
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, showThe Aldrich Family, showGracie Allen, actorJeanne Allen, writerAmos ’n’ Andy, showDesi Arnaz, actor and musicianRobert Alan Arthur, producer and writerAWARE, anticommunist organizationLucille Ball, actorThe Big Picture, documentary seriesRay Bolger, actorBonino, showChef Boyardee, brand of canned pasta productsGeorge Burns, actorThe Burns and Allen Show, showJames Caddigan, writerCaptain Midnight, showCaptain Video, showH. G. Christensen, journalistNat King Cole, bandleader, musician, singer, and television personalityDaily Worker, American Communist Party newspaperSammy Davis Jr., actor, comedian, dancer, and singerThomas Doherty, writerOrrin Dunlap, writerDwight D. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth president of the United StatesPhilo Farnsworth, inventorFather Knows Best, showElla Fitzgerald, singerMary Gannon, writerThe Goldbergs, showVincent Hartnett, anticommunist activist and writerHouse Un-American Activities CommitteeI Love Lucy, showKraft Theater, show
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Television, Reality, and Cold War Citizenship (selection), continued
Peggy Lee, actor, composer, musician, and songwriterNina Leibman, writerPhilip Loeb, actorJ. Fred MacDonald, writerMake Room for Daddy, showMary Kay and Johnny, showJames Monaco, writerJeanne Muir, actorNational Association of Radio and Television BroadcastersThe Nat King Cole Show, showHarriet Nelson, actor and singerOzzie Nelson, actor, bandleader, director, and producerEzio Pinza, actor and opera singerPlayhouse 90, showRed Channels, anticommunist publicationRobin Hood, showRod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, showHazel Scott, actorRod Serling, television personality and writerBishop Fulton J. Sheen, broadcast evangelistSuperman, showtelevision production codeDanny Thomas, actor and musicianEmmett Till, fourteen-year-old African American boy murdered by lynching in Money, Mississippi,
in 1955Time, magazineToday, showMel Tormé, actor, composer, musician, and singerPat Weaver, advertising executiveWhere’s Raymond?, show
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In the End, They Were Born on tv
Douglas Kearney
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Why Is “Everyman” a White Guy?Aziz Ansari
Black Mass, filmCasablanca, filmEmpire, showForrest Gump, filmFresh Off the Boat, showThe Guide, novel by R. K. NarayanLost, showThe Martian, novel by Andy Weir and filmMaster of None, showThe Notebook, filmParks and Recreation, showShort Circuit 2, filmSiddhartha, novel by Hermann HesseThe Social Network, filmThe Terminator, filmThe Walking Dead, showWhen Harry Met Sally, film
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Kim’s Fairytale Wedding (selection)Kate Durbin
Scott Disick, media personalityKris Humphries, basketball playerBruce [now Caitlyn] Jenner, track and field athlete and media personalityKendall Jenner, media personalityKris Jenner, media personalityKylie Jenner, media personalityKhloe Kardashian, media personalityKim Kardashian, media personalityKourtney Kardashian, media personalityRob Kardashian, media personalityKeeping Up with the Kardashians, showAlexander McQueen, designerLamar Odom, basketball player