Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties
- ISBN-10
- 082627417X
- ISBN-13
- 9780826274175
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-11-30
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Author
- Sara K. Eskridge
Description
Historian Sara Eskridge examines television’s rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nicknamed the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in the 1950s with the quiz show scandals and a campaign against violence in westerns. When a rival network introduced rural-themed programs to cater to the growing southern market, CBS latched onto the trend and soon reestablished itself as the Country Broadcasting System. Its rural comedies dominated the ratings throughout the decade, attracting viewers from all parts of the country. With fascinating discussions of The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and other shows, Eskridge reveals how the southern image was used to both entertain and reassure Americans in the turbulent 1960s.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Rube Goldberg and His Amazing Machines
By Brandon T. SniderThe hilarious first book in an all-new illustrated middle-grade series starring young inventor Rube Goldberg—now in paperback Grab a wrench, flip a switch, and get ready to spring into this all-new, sidesplitting illustrated series ...
-
Heat Storage: A Unique Solution For Energy Systems
By Ibrahim Dincer, Mehmet Akif EzanThis book covers emerging energy storage technologies and material characterization methods along with various systems and applications in building, power generation systems and thermal management.
-
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines
By Sarah AronsonWant to become an award-winning cartoonist and inventor? Follow your dreams, just like Rube Goldberg! From a young age, Rube Goldberg had a talent for art. But his father, a German immigrant, wanted Rube to have a secure job.
-
Human Amusements
By Wayne Johnston... rube tube,” and Philo either the “boob who gave the world the rube tube,” or “the rube who gave the world the boob tube.” That, in spite of themselves, they envied and admired me was not something I even considered until one day, after ...
-
The Fluid Dynamic Basis for Actuator Disc and Rotor Theories
By Gijs van Kuik... tube with constant strength Y and radius Rube = 1.0. The vortex tube strength is given by the velocity jump across the tube boundary in the far wake, e.g. for a thrust coefficient CT = Ap/(#pU;) = −8/9 the velocity in the wake is ve/U0 ...
-
Random House Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
By Random HouseProvides more than sixty thousand rhyming words in a dictionary enhanced by comprehensive cross-references, a glossary of poetic terms, and contemporary proper names and foreign phrases.
-
Advanced Therapy of Otitis Media
By Cuneyt M. AlperSilverstein H , Jackson LE , Rosenberg SI , Conlon WS . Pediatric laser - assisted tympanostomy . Laryngoscope 2001 ; 111 : 905–6 . Silverstein H , Kuhn J , Choo D , et al . Laser - assisted tympanostomy .
-
Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads
By Kitty Ledbetter, Scott Foster Siman... Rube Tube : CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties ( Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2018 ) , 5 . 60. Eskridge , Rube Tube , 5 . 61. " Jubilee Ends Its Hookup with ABC , " Springfield News - Leader , August 17 , 1957 , 2 . 62 ...
-
Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf
By Dave WelshComstock travels to the pastoral Burnham Beeches with his long-suffering girlfriend Rosemary Waterlow, a trip undermined by Comstock's failure to purchase contraceptives. On their return to London after a day which is dominated by his ...
-
Taught to Kill: An American Boy's War from the Ardennes to Berlin
By John B. Babcock... Rube. “Boys, it's payback time!” I crowed. “Roger, Sarge, that's about where I got her.” Rube's Assistant Gunner pulled the safety wire and dropped the three-pound projectile into the tube. Twenty seconds later: Boom! “Bingo! One more ...