The Sitcom Reader

The Sitcom ReaderUpdated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy. 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

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This new edition extends applications to optical sciences and includes five new chapters on applications in statistical physics

The Nicene Creed can be considered the most important creed of ecumenism

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Terry Bolas provides the first definitive history of the development of film and television studies in Britain

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The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is one of the most important documents in the history of science

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