{"product_id":"rowan-and-martins-laugh-in-paperback","title":"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKen Feil\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eExamines the reception, formal strategies, production history, and ideological underpinnings of the groundbreaking comedy-variety show \u003ci\u003eRowan and Martin's Laugh-In.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe highest-rated network program during its first three seasons, comedy-variety show \u003ci\u003eRowan and Martin's Laugh-In \u003c\/i\u003e(NBC, 1968-1973) remains an often overlooked and underrated innovator of American television history. Audiences of all kinds--old and young, square and hip, black and white, straight and queer--watched \u003ci\u003eLaugh-In\u003c\/i\u003e, whose campy, anti-establishment aesthetic mocked other tepid and serious popular shows. In \u003ci\u003eRowan and Martin's Laugh-In, \u003c\/i\u003eauthor Ken Feil presents the first scholarly investigation of the series whose suggestive catch-phrases \"sock it to me,\" \"look that up in your Funk'n'Wagnalls,\" and \"here comes the judge\" became part of pop culture history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In four chapters, Feil explores \u003ci\u003eLaugh-In\u003c\/i\u003e's newness, sophisticated style, irreverence, and broad appeal. First, he considers the show's indulgence of \"bad taste\" through a strategy of deliberate ambiguity that allowed audiences to enjoy countercultural, anti-establishment transgression and, reassuringly, conveyed the sense that it represented the establishment's investment in containing such defiant delights. Feil considers \u003ci\u003eLaugh-In\u003c\/i\u003e's camp, otherness, and \"open secrets\" as well as the show's conflicted positions on the \"private\" issues of taste, sexuality, lifestyle, and politics. Sexual swingers, stoned hippies, empowered African Americans, feminists, and flamboyantly \"nellie\" men all filled \u003ci\u003eLaugh-In\u003c\/i\u003e's routine roster, embodied by cast members Goldie Hawn, Jo Anne Worley, Lily Tomlin, Chelsea Brown, Alan Sues, Johnny Brown, and Judy Carne, along with regular guests Flip Wilson, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tiny Tim. Related to these icons, \u003ci\u003eLaugh-In\u003c\/i\u003e reflected on hotly politicized current events: militarism in Vietnam, racist discrimination in the U.S., Civil Rights and Black Power, birth control and sex, feminism, and gay liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In its playful put-ons of the establishment, parade of countercultural types and tastes, and vacillation between identification and repulsion, Feil argues that \u003ci\u003eLaugh-In\u003c\/i\u003e's intentional ambiguity was part and parcel of its inventiveness and commercial prosperity. Fans of the show as well as readers interested in American television and pop culture history will enjoy this insightful look at \u003ci\u003eRowan and Martin's Laugh-In\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKen Feil is senior scholar-in-residence in the Visual and Media Arts Department at Emerson College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination \u003c\/i\u003eand has most recently contributed to the collections \u003ci\u003eQueer Love in Film and Television\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReading the Bromance\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 7 x 5.68 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52711169982771,"sku":"9780814338223","price":42.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/5m7s8ZOXad9780814338223.webp?v=1763510279","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/rowan-and-martins-laugh-in-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}