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TUBE TALK BIG IDEAS IN TELEVISION Reference List TUBE TALK BIG IDEAS IN TELEVISION Reference List The Great Divide: Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the Rise of the Bad Fan 4 Emily Nussbaum Us and Them 5 David Sedaris Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television 6 George Carlin The Amiable Madness of Green Acres 7 Noel Murray Brad Carrigan, American 8 George Saunders Empires of the New World (selection) 9 Pamela Douglas, interview with Ted Sarandos “Time to Go”: Dreaming of a Televised Future (selection) 10 Dade Hayes Hasta Siempre 11 Jean Burnet From “Lessons from Television” 12 Susan Stewart Pursuit of the Public Interest in the Vast Wasteland 13 Walter J. Podrazik The contents of this packet include proprietary trademarks and copyrighted materials, and may be used or quoted only with permission and appropriate credit to the Great Books Foundation. TUBE TALK What I Learned from Kristi Yamaguchi 14 Nicole Chung Control (selection) 15 Frank Rose The Age of Show Business (selection) 16 Neil Postman Judge in Simpson Trial Allows TV Camera in Courtroom 17 David Margolick To Remember History You Have to Repeat It 18 Tony Hoagland The Moon Hours 19 E. B. White and others Getting Dirty 20 Mark Crispin Miller The First Presidential Debate (selection) 21 Alan Schroeder The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 22 Gil Scott-Heron The Missing Remote 23 Diane Lockward Dolls and Feelings: Jill Soloway’s Post-Patriarchal Television (selection) 24 Ariel Levy Pop History on an Epic Scale: Roots 25 Donald Bogle Desperately Selling Soda 29 Leslie Savan The TV 30 Ben Loory Television, Reality, and Cold War Citizenship (selection) 31 Alan Nadel In the End, They Were Born on TV 33 Douglas Kearney Why Is “Everyman” a White Guy? 34 Aziz Ansari Kim’s Fairytale Wedding (selection) 35 Kate Durbin The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 3 – TUBE TALK The Great Divide: Norman Lear, Archie Bunker, and the Rise of the Bad Fan Emily Nussbaum All in the Family, show Bewitched, show Bonanza, show Breaking Bad, show Archie Bunker, character in All in the Family Lena Dunham, actor Green Acres, show The Honeymooners, show The Jeffersons, show Lassie, show Norman Lear, writer and producer Maude, show Carroll O’Connor, actor Mickey Rooney, actor “rural purge” of 1970, television network action The Sopranos, show Starsky and Hutch, characters in the show Starsky & Hutch Till Death Us Do Part, show Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 4 – TUBE TALK Us and Them David Sedaris Elmer Fudd, character in Looney Tunes cartoons “Warning, Will. Danger, danger” reference to the show Lost in Space Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 5 – TUBE TALK Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television George Carlin Johnny Carson, television personality Ed McMahon, television personality Doc Severinsen, bandleader and musician The Tonight Show, show Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 6 – TUBE TALK The Amiable Madness of Green Acres Noel Murray The Beverly Hillbillies, show Green Acres, show Peanuts, comic strip and animated television show Petticoat Junction, show Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 7 – TUBE TALK Brad Carrigan, American George Saunders Thomas Paine, eighteenth-century political theorist Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 8 – TUBE TALK Empires of the New World (selection) Pamela Douglas, interview with Ted Sarandos Arrested Development, show Breaking Bad, show Game of Thrones, show Google, search engine House of Cards, show Mad Men, show Netflix, media platform Ted Sarandos, Netflix executive The Sopranos, show Francis “Frank” Underwood, character in the show House of Cards Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 9 – TUBE TALK “Time to Go”: Dreaming of a Televised Future (selection) Dade Hayes Blue’s Clues, show Captain Kangaroo, show Dora the Explorer, show Derek Jacobi, actor In the Night Garden, show Little Einsteins, show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, show My Friends Tigger & Pooh, show Neil Postman, critic PBS [Public Broadcasting Service], network Sesame Street, show Teletubbies, show Kurt Vonnegut, writer Anne Wood, producer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 10 – TUBE TALK Hasta Siempre Jean Burnet Don Francisco, variety show host Jerry Springer Show, show Walter Mercado, television personality Sábado Gigante, show SyFy, network Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 11 – TUBE TALK From “Lessons from Television” Susan Stewart No specific references Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 12 – TUBE TALK Pursuit of the Public Interest in the Vast Wasteland Walter J. Podrazik Robert Altman, director, producer, and screenwriter The Andy Griffith Show, show The Atlantic, magazine Ben Casey, show The Bugs Bunny Show, show The Dick Van Dyke Show, show Dr. Kildare, show Elizabeth R, show The First Churchills, show Fred W. Friendly, network executive Gilligan’s Island, show The Hathaways, show John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States Masterpiece Theatre, show Newton Minow, FCC chairman Monty Python’s Flying Circus, show Sesame Street, show Charles Sopkin, writer The Twilight Zone, show Upstairs, Downstairs, show The Wonderful World of Color, show Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 13 – TUBE TALK What I Learned from Kristi Yamaguchi Nicole Chung Frank Deford, sportswriter Midori Ito, figure skater Claudia Kishi, character in the Baby-Sitters Club book series Michelle Kwan, figure skater Jeremy Lin, basketball player Power Rangers, show Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skater Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 14 – TUBE TALK Control (selection) Frank Rose All in the Family, show AMC, network American Idol, show Avatar, film Arthur C. Clarke, writer Charles Dickens, nineteenth-century English writer Betty Draper, character in Mad Men Don Draper, character in Mad Men Mad Men, show Rupert Murdoch, network executive Peggy Olson, character in Mad Men Star Wars, film and film series Twitter, social media platform Matthew Weiner, writer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 15 – TUBE TALK The Age of Show Business (selection) Neil Postman Bonanza, show William Buckley, writer and political activist Dallas, show The Day After, show Dynasty, show Gunsmoke, show Kojak, show Ted Koppel, broadcast journalist Marshall McLuhan, critic Mission: Impossible, show Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer Star Trek, show and film series Elie Wiesel, writer and political activist Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 16 – TUBE TALK Judge in Simpson Trial Allows TV Camera in Courtroom David Margolick American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU], organization Marcia Clark, prosecutor Court TV, network Billie Sol Estes, businessman and convicted swindler Lance A. Ito, judge for Los Angeles County Superior Court Mike Royko, journalist Sam Sheppard, physician and homicide suspect O. J. Simpson, actor, football player, and sportscaster Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 17 – TUBE TALK To Remember History You Have to Repeat It Tony Hoagland No specific references Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 18 – TUBE TALK The Moon Hours E. B. White and others Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, astronaut Neil Armstrong, astronaut “Blue Moon,” song James Kitchell, producer John Lindsay, mayor of New York City Tony Messuri, television director Richard M. Nixon, thirty-seventh president of the United States Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 19 – TUBE TALK Getting Dirty Mark Crispin Miller Advertising Age, magazine Fred Danzig, magazine columnist and editor Shield, deodorant soap Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 20 – TUBE TALK The First Presidential Debate (selection) Alan Schroeder Archibald Cox, law professor Walter Cronkite, broadcast journalist Leonard Goldenson, network executive Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady of the United States John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet statesman Henry Cabot Lodge, 1960 US vice presidential nominee Sig Mickelson, network executive Richard M. Nixon, thirty-seventh president of the United States William Paley, network executive Lee Radziwill, actor and sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Robert Sarnoff, network executive Arthur Schlesinger Jr., critic and historian Howard K. Smith, journalist Oliver Treyz, network executive Theodore White, writer Copyright © 2018 The Copyright Great © 2018 Books Foundation – 21 – TUBE TALK The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Gil Scott-Heron Spiro Agnew, US vice president under Richard M. Nixon The Beverly Hillbillies, show Bullwinkle, character in the cartoon show The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends Glen Campbell, musician Johnny Cash, musician Green Acres, show Hooterville Junction, fictional place inPetticoat Junction Engelbert Humperdinck, musician Tom Jones, musician Julia, character in the show Julia Francis Scott Key, songwriter Willie Mays, baseball player Steve McQueen, actor John Mitchell, US attorney general Richard M. Nixon, thirty-seventh president of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States Rare Earth, band Schaefer Award Theatre, show Search for Tomorrow, show Jim Webb, musician Roy Wilkins, civil rights activist Natalie Wood, actor Whitney Young, civil rights activist