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

detailing each site's history

the field of materiomics

The fast-food industry has a significant impact on global biodiversity

the humorous Mark Twain

paving the way for developing strategies for microbiome engineering

the region’s principal shared language of written and official discourse

A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare’s plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political

Investigates how sermons and vernacular religious drama worked as media for public learning

At one interrogation

Over the course of the book

This issue of the Bulletin is devoted to the Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek epistolographers

The articles are meant to shore up faith and to serve as a bank of resources to orient readers to Judaism's rich