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...
| Publicado no: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2014]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Christmas
B Television B Peanuts B Animação B 1960 B Religião B secular, public |
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| Resumo: | 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 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.26.1.1 |