Very Special Episodes explores various examples of the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Through the study of this unique television format, this anthology traces the history of television’s engagement with many of the most important political, aesthetic, economic, and social movements that continue to challenge our society today.
Very Special Episodes explores various examples of the “very special episode” to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Through the study of this unique television format, this anthology traces the history of television’s engagement with many of the most important political, aesthetic, economic, and social movements that continue to challenge our society today.
JONATHAN COHN is an assistant professor in digital cultures at the University of Alberta. He is the author of The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture (Rutgers University Press). JENNIFER PORST is an assistant professor of media arts at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on Television (Rutgers University Press).
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Preface and Acknowledgments A Very Special Introduction JONATHAN COHN AND JENNIFER PORST 1 Listen to Save Lives: Music and the Atomic Bomb in Cold War Very Special Episodes REBA WISSNER 2 Blackface on a White Christmas: Bewitched’s “Sneaky Racism” JONATHAN COHN 3 Conspicuous Morality: Very Special Episodes, the War on Drugs, and Broadcast Deregulation PHILIP SCEPANSKI 4 “Due to Its Subject Matter”: Creating the Very Special Teen Sex Talk in 1980s Sitcoms BARBARA SELZNICK 5 “Thanksgiving Orphans”: Cheers and Very Special Holiday Episodes of Television JENNIFER PORST 6 Very Spooky Episodes: Roseanne, Working-Class Monsters, and the Playful Perversions of Halloween TV DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT 7 A Very Special Visit to the “Old Neighborhood”: Containing the Los Angeles Uprising on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air LINDSAY GIGGEY 8 The Night the Lights Went out at (Most of) NBC: Producing a Network with 1994’s Must See TV Blackout Stunt ERIN COPPLE SMITH 9 Ellen, “The Puppy Episode,” and a Special TV Milestone? RON BECKER 10 “And Was There a Lesson in All This?”: Weaponizing—and Subverting—the Very Special Episode ERIN GIANNINI 11 Animating Entertainment, or Very Special Media Reflexivity MIMI WHITE 12 Liveness and the Live Episode in Television Comedy BRETT MILLS 13 Too black-ish? Banned Very Special Episodes APRYL ALEXANDER AND JENNIFER PORST 14 Knife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of EastEnders CHRISTINE BECKER 15 UnREAL, Sexual Assault, and the Very Special Season JORIE LAGERWEY AND TAYLOR NYGAARD Notes on Contributors Index
Preface and Acknowledgments A Very Special Introduction JONATHAN COHN AND JENNIFER PORST 1 Listen to Save Lives: Music and the Atomic Bomb in Cold War Very Special Episodes REBA WISSNER 2 Blackface on a White Christmas: Bewitched’s “Sneaky Racism” JONATHAN COHN 3 Conspicuous Morality: Very Special Episodes, the War on Drugs, and Broadcast Deregulation PHILIP SCEPANSKI 4 “Due to Its Subject Matter”: Creating the Very Special Teen Sex Talk in 1980s Sitcoms BARBARA SELZNICK 5 “Thanksgiving Orphans”: Cheers and Very Special Holiday Episodes of Television JENNIFER PORST 6 Very Spooky Episodes: Roseanne, Working-Class Monsters, and the Playful Perversions of Halloween TV DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT 7 A Very Special Visit to the “Old Neighborhood”: Containing the Los Angeles Uprising on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air LINDSAY GIGGEY 8 The Night the Lights Went out at (Most of) NBC: Producing a Network with 1994’s Must See TV Blackout Stunt ERIN COPPLE SMITH 9 Ellen, “The Puppy Episode,” and a Special TV Milestone? RON BECKER 10 “And Was There a Lesson in All This?”: Weaponizing—and Subverting—the Very Special Episode ERIN GIANNINI 11 Animating Entertainment, or Very Special Media Reflexivity MIMI WHITE 12 Liveness and the Live Episode in Television Comedy BRETT MILLS 13 Too black-ish? Banned Very Special Episodes APRYL ALEXANDER AND JENNIFER PORST 14 Knife Crime and Passion: A Very Special Episode of EastEnders CHRISTINE BECKER 15 UnREAL, Sexual Assault, and the Very Special Season JORIE LAGERWEY AND TAYLOR NYGAARD Notes on Contributors Index
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