#CybillToo?: how a feminist sitcom (almost) exposed Hollywood’s dark secrets

References

• Baudrillard, J. 2006. “The Precession of Simulacra.” in: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, a Reader, edited by J. Storey, 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
   Google Scholar
• Baudrillard, J. 2010. “Simulacra and Science Fiction.” in: The Routledge Critical and Cultural Studies Reader, edited by N. Badmington, and J. Thomas. Abingdon: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Berger, A. A. 1998. An Anatomy of Humor. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Bergson, H. 1987. “Excerpt from: “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, Translated by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell.” in: The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor, edited by J. Morreall. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
   Google Scholar
• Berman, Marc. 2019. ‘“The Dick van Dyke Show”, TV’s First Sophisticated Comedy, Ended On This Day in 1966’. Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcberman1/2019/06/01/the-dick-van-dyke-show-tvs-first-sophisticated-comedy-ends-on-this-day-in-1966/.
   Google Scholar
• Bogdanovich, P. (director) 1971. The Last Picture Show. US.
   Google Scholar
• Brownmiller, S. 1999. In Our Time, Memoir of a Revolution. New York: Delta.
   Google Scholar
• Buckley, F. H. 2008. The Morality of Laughter. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
   Google Scholar
• Caron, G. G. (creator). n.d. Moonlighting. (ABC 1985–1989).
   Google Scholar
• Chaiken, I., M. Abbot, and K. Greenberg. (creators). n.d. The L Word. (Showtime 2004–2009).
   Google Scholar
• Charlesworth, D. 2005. “Recontextualising “the Change”: Rhetorical and Performative Constructions of Menopause in Cybill.” In: Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives, edited by J. Campbell and T. Carilli. Lanham: University Press of America.
   Google Scholar
• Cicchetti, D., and D. J. Cohen. 2006. Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 3: Risk, Disorder and Adaption. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
   Google Scholar
• Collinson, D. L. 2002. “Managing Humour.” Journal of Management Studies 39 (3): 269–288. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6486.00292.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crane, D., and M. Kauffman. (creators). n.d. Friends. (NBC 1994–2004).
   Google Scholar
• David, L., and J. Seinfeld. (creators). n.d. Seinfeld. (NBC 1989–1998).
   Google Scholar
• Dow, B. 1996. Prime-Time Feminism. Television, Media Culture and the Women’s Movement since 1970. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
   Google Scholar
• English, D. (creator). n.d. Murphy Brown. (CBS 1988–1998; 2018).
   Google Scholar
• Fairclough, N. 2010. Critical Discourse Analysis. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
   Google Scholar
• Farrow, R. 2018. Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct. The New Yorker, 27 July. https://www.Newyorker.Com/Magazine/2018/08/06/Les-Moonves-And-Cbs-Face-Allegations-Of-Sexual-Misconduct.
   Google Scholar
• Farrow, R. 2019. Catch and Kill, Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators. London: Fleet.
   Google Scholar
• Fraser, N., and L. J. Nicholson. 1990. “Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism.” in: Feminism/Postmodernism, edited by L. J. Nicholson. New York and London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Gellner, E. 2002. Postmodernism, Reason and Religion. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Gonzales, S. 2020. “Actor Danny Masterson arrested on rape charges in Los Angeles,” CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/entertainment/danny-masterson/index.html.
   Google Scholar
• Gray, F. 1994. Women and Laughter. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd.
   Google Scholar
• Harrison, C. 2010. American Culture in the 1990s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Henry, M. 2003. “The Triumph of Popular Culture, Situation Comedy, Postmodernism and the Simpsons.” In Critiquing the Sitcom, a Reader, edited by J. Morreale. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hobbes, T. 1987. “Leviathan (Extract).” In The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor, edited by J. Morreale. Albany: State University of New York Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hutcheon, L. 2000. A Poetics of Postmodernism, History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Hutcheson, F. 1987. “Reflections upon Laughter (Extract).” in: The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor, edited by J. Morreall. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
   Google Scholar
• Levine, J. 2010. Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good, Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Toronto: ECW Press.
   Google Scholar
• Linder, L. R., and M. M. Dalton. (eds) 2016. “Cybill: Privileging Liberal Feminism in Daily Sitcom Life.” inThe Sitcom Reader, Second Edition: America Re-Viewed, Still Skewed. New York: State University of New York Press.
   Google Scholar
• Lorre, C. (creator). n.d.-a. Grace Under Fire. (ABC 1993–1998).
   Google Scholar
• Lorre, C. n.d.-b. Cybill. (CBS:1995–1998).
   Google Scholar
• Lyotard, J. 2010. “Answer to the Question: What is the Postmodern?.” in: The Routledge Critical and Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Neil Badmington and Thomas Julia. Abingdon: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Marlens, N., C. Black, and D. Rosenthal. (creators). n.d. Ellen. (ABC 1994–1998).
   Google Scholar
• May, E. (director) 1972. The Heartbreak Kid. US.
   Google Scholar
• McGowan, R. 2018. Brave. London: HQ, HarperCollins.
   Google Scholar
• Mellencamp, P. 1996. High Anxiety, Catastrophe, Scandal, Age and Comedy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mills, B. 2009. The Sitcom. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
   Google Scholar
• Miroff, B. 2000. “Courting the Public: Bill Clinton’s Postmodern Education.” in: The Postmodern Presidency, Bill Clinton’s Legacy in U.S. Politics, edited by S. E. Schier, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
   Google Scholar
• Morreale, J. 2003. “Sitcoms Say Good-Bye: The Cultural Spectacle of Seinfeld’s Last Episode.” in: Critiquing the Sitcom, a Reader, edited by Joanne Morreale, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Morreall, J. (ed.) 1987. The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
   Google Scholar
• Murray, D. 2005. Neoconservatism: Why We Need It. London: The Social Affairs Unit.
   Google Scholar
• Noble, T. 1995. “The Nuclear Family and Postmodern Theory.” Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies 27 (2): 127–143.
   Google Scholar
• Reagan, R. 1986. ‘Radio Address to the Nation on Family Values’, December 20. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/radio-address-the-nation-family-values.
   Google Scholar
• Reiner, C. (creator). n.d. The Dick van Dyke Show. (CBS 1961–1966).
   Google Scholar
• Scorsese, M. (director) 1976. Taxi Driver. US.
   Google Scholar
• Shapiro, B. 2011. Primetime Propaganda. New York: Harper Collins e-books.
   Google Scholar
• Shepherd, C. 2001. Cybill Disobedience. London: Ebury Press.
   Google Scholar
• Spargo, C. 2018. ‘Cybill Shepherd says Les Moonves cancelled her sitcom when she refused to have sex with him after he told the actress that his “wife and mistress did not turn him on”’. Mail Online, 13 December. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6492449/Cybill-Shepherd-says-Les-Moonves-cancelled-sitcom-refused-sex-him.htmln.
   Google Scholar
• Stacey, J. 1998. Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late-Twentieth Century America. Los Angeles and London: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Storey, J. (ed.) 2006. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, a Reader, Third Edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
   Google Scholar
• Stransky, T. 2008. “A Roseanne Family Reunion,” Entertainment Weekly, 24 October. https://ew.com/article/2008/10/24/roseanne-family-reunion/.
   Google Scholar
• Weedon, C. 2000. Feminist Practice & Poststructuralist Theory, second edition. Oxford: Blackwell.
   Google Scholar
• Weisensee Egan, N. 2019. Chasing Cosby. Berkeley: Seal Press.
   Google Scholar
• Whisnant, C. 2013. “Some Common Themes and Ideas within the Field of Postmodern Thought: A Handout for HIS 389.”https://webs.wofford.edu/whisnantcj/his389/Postmodernism.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Williams, M., and R. Barr. (creators). n.d. Roseanne. (ABC 1998–1997; 2018).
   Google Scholar
• Worringham, R., and R. Buxton. n.d. ‘Censorship/Standards & Practices’ (n.d.), The Television Academy Foundation internet site. https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/topics/censorship-standards-practices.
   Google Scholar
• Zimmer, B. 2017. “Casting Couch: The Origins of a Pernicious Hollywood Cliché.” The Atlantic, 16 October. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/casting-couch-the-origins-of-a-pernicious-hollywood-cliche/543000/.
   Google Scholar