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Introduction : the parodic impulse in the (not-so) fabulous Fifties
The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century
What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody
The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : nasculinity and taste in Playboy's Penthouse
Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery
Black tie, straightjacket : Oscar Levant's sick life on TV
Conclusion : television for people who hate television?
The new, sick sense: the mediation of America's health and humor at mid-century
What, me subversive? MAD Magazine and the textual strategies and cultural politics of parody
The parodic sensibility and the sophisticated gaze : nasculinity and taste in Playboy's Penthouse
Ernie Kovacs and the logics of television parody and electronic trickery
Black tie, straightjacket : Oscar Levant's sick life on TV
Conclusion : television for people who hate television?