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Author:   Erin Giannini (independent scholar)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781538191897

ISBN 10:   153819189
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   22 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Comedy Done Right? Community on NBC Part 1: Greendale’s Human Beings Chapter 1: Just a Laugh: A Brief Sitcom History Chapter 2: Harmon’s World: Creating Community Chapter 3: The Greendale Seven Part 2: Chaos Theory: Community’s Characters and Narrative Chapter 4: “Our school may be a toilet, but it's our toilet”: Community and Schools on TV Chapter 5: “I can tell life from TV...TV makes sense”: Community and the Likability Question Chapter 6: “Some episodes too conceptual to be funny”: Community Takes on the Sitcom Genre Part 3: “Show may be cancelled and moved to the Internet”: Community’s Impact Chapter 7: “We’re created by a joke”: Sony, Community, and TV on the Brink Chapter 8: “Six Seasons and a Movie!”: Community’s Afterlife Appendix: The 25 Must-See Community Episodes Notes Index About the Author

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Six seasons and a movie...and a book!? In this detailed and engaging history of Community, Erin Giannini explores how our favorite sitcom came into being, creator Dan Harmon's connection with fandom, and why Community remains one of the best and brightest shows to air on TV. We are all Greendale Human Beings, and we should all read this book. -- Paul Booth, professor of media and popular culture at DePaul University, ""Inspector Spacetime"" fan

Author Information

Erin Giannini, PhD is an independent scholar and has written numerous articles about topics from corporate culture in genre television to production-level shifts and their effects on television texts. She is also the author of Supernatural; A History of Television’s Unearthly Road Trip (Rowman & Littlefield 2021), The Good Place [TV Milestones], and co-editor of the book series B-TV: Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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