As this project is the culmination of a decade of study, I have numerous people to thank for their support, input, and participation in my work. But while they might be formulaic and routine, they can also be quite sincere. Chapter 6, “Cartoon Realism: Genre Mixing and the Cultural Life of The Simpsons,” The Velvet Light Trap #47, Spring 2001, 15-28.ġ Television Genres as Cultural CategoriesĢ Before the Scandals - Genre Historiography and the Cultural History of the Quiz Showģ From Saturday Morning to Around the Clock - The Industrial Practices of Television CartoonsĤ Audiences Talk Genres - Talk Shows and the Intersections of Taste and Identityĥ Policing Genres - Dragnet’s Texts and Generic ContextsĦ Making Fun of Genres - The Politics of Parody and Genre Mixing in Soap and The SimpsonsĬonclusion: Some Reflections on Reality TelevisionĪcknowledgment pages in academic books are practically genres unto themselves, with their own particular textual conventions - like noting the collaborative nature of scholarship - and associated reading practices - such as flipping first to the acknowledgments to see who is thanked or snubbed. Chapter 4, “Audiences Talking Genre: Television Talk Shows and Cultural Hierarchies,” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 31:1, Spring 2003, 36-46. Chapter 3, “The Great Saturday Morning Exile: Scheduling Cartoons on Television’s Periphery in the 1960s,” in Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture, edited by Carol Stabile and Mark Harrison (New York: Routledge, 2003), 33-54.
Chapter 2, “Before the Scandals: The Radio Precedents of the Quiz Show Genre,” in The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of US Radio Broadcasting, edited by Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio (New York: Routledge, 2002), 319-42. PN1992.3.U 791.45’6-dc22 2003027169 Portions of this book have appeared in earlier versions in the following publications: Chapter 1, “A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory,” Cinema Journal, 40:3, Spring 2001, 3-24. Genre and television: from cop shows to cartoons in American culture / by Jason Mittell. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mittell, Jason. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission from the publishers. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. RoutledgeFalmer is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. Published in 2004 by Routledge 29 W 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Copyright © 2004 by Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.
GENRE and TELEVISION From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture
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