After America's most pompous barhound left the Cheer's gang in
Boston, he returned to Seattle and found himself surrounded by an
equally colorful cast of friends and family alike. For eleven
seasons, radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane contended with his
blue-collar ex-cop father Martin, English caretaker Daphne,
coworker Roz, and his younger brother Niles. Looking at the world
through Frasier's aristocratic, witty lens, the show explored
themes of love, loss, friendship, and what it might mean to live a
full life. Both fans and critics loved Frasier, and the show's 37
primetime Emmy wins are the most ever for a comedy series. In
Frasier: A Cultural History, Joseph J. Darowski and Kate Darowski
offer an engaging analysis of the long-running, award-winning show,
offering insights into both the onscreen stories as well as the
efforts behind the scenes to shape this modern classic. This volume
examines the series as a whole, but also focuses on the show's key
characters, including Eddie, the canine. Close looks at set design,
class issues, and gender roles are also provided, along with
opinionated reviews of all 264 episodes, highlighting the peaks and
dips in quality across more than a decade of television. Despite
the show's focus on an elitist intellectual-and his equally snooty
brother-Frasier often embraced farce on a level previously unseen
in American sitcoms, a mix of comedic elements that endeared it to
viewers around the world. Frasier: A Cultural History will appeal
to the show's many fans as well as to scholar of media, television,
and popular culture.
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