A History of Television News Parody in America

Nothing but the Truthiness

Curt Hersey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3778-9 (ISBN)

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This book provides the first history of the television news parody genre, analyzing how these shows have functioned as critiques of television news, politics, culture, and American society, while entertaining and informing audiences. Each chapter features a case study and discussion of the genre during a particular decade.

In this book, Curt Hersey explores the history of U.S. media, demonstrating how news parody has entertained television audiences by satirizing political and social issues and offering a lighthearted take on broadcast news. Despite shifts away from broadcast and cable delivery, comedians like Samantha Bee, Michael Che, and John Oliver continue this tradition of delivering topical humor within a newscast format. In this history of the television news parody genre, Hersey critically engages with the norms and presentational styles of television journalism at the time of their production. News parody has increasingly become part of the larger journalistic field, with viewers often turning to this parodic programming as a supplement and corrective to mainstream news sources. Beginning in the 1960s with the NBC program That Was the Week That Was, the history of news parody is analyzed decade by decade by focusing on presidential and political coverage, as well as the genre’s critiques of television network and cable journalism. Case studies include Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update;” HBO’s Not Necessarily the News; Comedy Central’s original Daily Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report; and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Scholars of media history, political communication, and popular culture will find this book particularly useful.

Curt Hersey is associate professor of communication at Berry College in Rome, Georgia.

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Dedication

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Permissions

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Tell Me Again About the Rabbit, John
Chapter 2: That Was the Decade That Was: The 1960s and the Limits of Network News Parody
Chapter 3: Weekend Update: Moving News Parody to Late Night
Chapter 4: News Parody in the 80’s Multi-Channel Era: HBO’s Not Necessarily the News
Chapter 5: The Daily Show in the 1990s: From Kilborn to Stewart
Chapter 6: Stewart and Colbert in the Post-Network Era
Chapter 7: Passing the Torch in the 2010s: A New Generation of News Parody Anchors
Chapter 8: News Parody Moving Forward
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 227 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-7936-3778-4 / 1793637784
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-3778-9 / 9781793637789
Zustand	Neuware