JACK BENNY and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy Audiobook
By Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Read by Stephanie Henderson
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Chapter One – Becoming Benny: The Development of Jack Benny’s Character-Focused Comedy for Radio
Chapter Two – “What Are You Laughing at, Mary?” Mary Livingstone’s Comic Voice
Chapter Three – Masculine Gender Identity in Jack Benny’s Humor
Chapter Four – Eddie Anderson, Rochester, and Race in 1930s Radio and Film
Chapter Five – Rochester and the Revenge of Uncle Tom in the 1940s and 1950s
Chapter Six – The Commercial Imperative: Jack Benny, Advertising and Radio Sponsors
Chapter Seven – Jack Benny s Intermedia Juggling of Radio and Film
Chapter Eight – Benny at War with the Radio Critics
Chapter Nine – Jack Benny’s Turn Towards Television
Author Kathy Fuller-Seeley Interview (2016)
Kathy Fuller-Seeley is a media history professor at University of Texas at Austin and a Jack Benny fan club member. She is currently writing book called “Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy” and in the process has obtained and read nearly all of the scripts to the lost episodes.
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