Christmas in the 1960s: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Religion, and the Conventions of the Television Genre
This study of Christmas television programming from the 1960s is prompted by the repeated assertion that A Charlie Brown Christmas was an aberration within the television medium because its creator, Charles Schulz, dared to include religious content in the mainstream title. Grounded by historical/ar...
Pubblicato in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
Lingua: | Inglese |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2014]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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Altre parole chiave: | B
Christmas
B Television B Peanuts B 1960 B Religione B secular, public B Animazione |
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Riepilogo: | This study of Christmas television programming from the 1960s is prompted by the repeated assertion that A Charlie Brown Christmas was an aberration within the television medium because its creator, Charles Schulz, dared to include religious content in the mainstream title. Grounded by historical/archival research, this article presents a content analysis of Christmas titles from the 1960s formative decade-of-change in order to substantiate the claim of television's secularity. The findings demonstrate that even in the genre of Christmas programming, mainstream television has abided by a public/private split from this early era, embracing a model of secularity that resists references to religious belief. A Charlie Brown Christmas and its contemporaries are also analyzed to determine the conventions of the genre that may at times afford such religious aberration when otherwise followed. |
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ISSN: | 1703-289X |
Comprende: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.26.1.1 |