Description
Book SynopsisCritics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune - or even willfully blind - to the landmark upheavals rocking western and American society during the 1960s. This book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-led societal changes.
Trade Review“
Groove Tube offers the first comprehensive account of the representation of the youth rebellions in television and of the sparky reception of those representations in the underground press. Bodroghkozy is the model of a new kind of media historian, one who has produced a book that will attract and hold the interest of Generation X undergrads and old hippies alike.”—Henry Jenkins, author of
From Barbie to Mortal Combat“Bodroghkozy is right-on when it comes to the details of
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, CBS’s firing of us, and the surrounding controversy. Her observations are certainly worth taking the time to read.”—Tom Smothers
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Turning on the Groove Tube
1. “Clarabell was the First Yippie”: The Television Generation from
Howdy Doody to McLuhan
2. Plastic Hippies: The Counterculture on TV
3. “Every Revolutionary Needs a Color TV”: The Yippies, Media Manipulation, and Talk Shows
4. Smothering Dissent:
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and the Crisis of Authority in Entertainment Television
5. Negotiating the Mod: How
The Mod Squad Played the Ideological Balancing Act in Prime-Time
6. Make It Relevant: How Youth Rebellion Captured Prime-Time in 1970-1971
7. Conclusion: Legacies
Appendix: A
Groove Tube Selective Chronology of the Years 1966 to 1971
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