Outrageous
About This Book
Kliph Nesteroff, a historian of modern comedy, turns to the wider world of American entertainment in this sweeping account of show business and the culture wars. He examines a familiar assumption: that audiences today are unusually thin-skinned, and that earlier generations of viewers and listeners accepted whatever performers offered without complaint. Nesteroff asks whether that picture survives a close look at the record. The answer, he shows, is no. For close to two centuries Americans have objected to entertainment, sometimes for good reasons and often for bad ones. Meanwhile, political forces have repeatedly tried to get around the arts through censorship, legal pressure, and open propaganda. Tracing this history from Mae West to Johnny Carson, and from Amos 'n' Andy to Beavis and Butt-Head, the book recounts the controversies that have shaped American show business and the continuing efforts to determine what people watch, read, and hear.
ISBN: 9781419760983
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