@article{1378231,
      author = {Arras, Paul,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1378231},
      title = {The lonely nineties : visions of community in contemporary  US television /},
      abstract = {This book examines the most popular American television  shows of the nineties--a decade at the last gasp of network  television's cultural dominance. At a time when American  culture seemed increasingly fragmented, television still  offered something close to a site of national consensus.  The Lonely Nineties focuses on a different set of popular  nineties television shows in each chapter and provides an  in-depth reading of scenes, characters or episodes that  articulate the overarching "ideology" of each series. It  ultimately argues that television shows such as Seinfeld,  Friends, Law & Order and The Simpsons helped to shape the  ways Americans thought about themselves in relation to  their friends, families, localities, and nation. It  demonstrates how these shows engaged with a variety of  problems in American civic life, responded to the social  isolation of the age, and occasionally imagined  improvements for community in America.},
      recid = {1378231},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}