Strange bedfellows (Record no. 150765)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02118nam a2200361 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 791.45/6170973 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Peterson, Russell Leslie. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Strange bedfellows |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Brunswick, N.J. : |
| Name of publisher | Rutgers University Press, |
| Year of publication | c2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | vii, 254 p., [8] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Losing our religion -- "Showmen is devoid of politics": the roots of pseudo-satire and the rise of the comedy-industrial complex -- Film at 11:00, jokes at 11:30: topical comedy and the news -- The personal and the political -- Pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain -- Truth versus Truthiness; or, Looking for Mr. Smith -- For whom the bell dings -- Laughing all the way to the White House -- Irony is dead... long live satire? |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | A significant number of Americans get some of their "news" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. Is "infotainment" a debasement, or a replacement, for traditional news outlets? |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Television comedies |
| Topical Term | Television talk shows |
| Topical Term | Television broadcasting of news |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10240594 |
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