Dennis Tredy est maître de conférences en littérature américaine à l’Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, enseignant d’adaptation filmique à Sciences Po Paris, et co-fondateur de la Société Européenne des Etudes Jamesiennes (ESJS). Il a publié trois volumes sur James, Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century (2019), Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity (2013) et Henry James’s Europe : Heritage and Transfer (2011), ainsi que de nombreux articles sur James et d’autres auteurs américains. Il a également publié des études sur l’adaptation filmique des auteurs américains, ainsi que des études sur la série télévisée américaine, notamment sur la sitcom, sur l’adaptation des émissions radio au milieu du vingtième siècle, et sur la représentation des minorités et de la contreculture dans les années 1950, 1960 et 1970.
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Dennis Tredy is an associate professor of American Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and teaches literature and film adaptation at Sciences Po Paris. He is co-founder of the European Society of Jamesian Studies and has published three volumes on Henry James: Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century (2019), Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity (2014) and Henry James’s Europe: Heritage and Transfer (2011). In addition to his publications on James and on other American novelists, Dennis has published studies on film and television adaptations of the works of Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Vladimir Nabokov and other authors, as well as on literary adaptation and radio adaptation for television, on TV series past and present, and on the representation of American culture, diversity and counter-culture in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s

Il présente ici, en Anglais, la série "All in the Family", une émission qu'il a sous-titrée : "Those Were the Days of 'Serious Comedy': Norman Lear and All in the Family"

L'intervention de Dennis Tredy suit le plan suivant :
1. The Rural Purge of 1970 and the Rise of 'Serious Comedy' (new advertising demographics, frontal approach to hot topics, dominance of 'relevancy comedies' including The Mary Tymer Moore Show, M*A*S*H and All in the Family.)

2. Norman Lear and the Dynamics of All in the Family (adapting the British premise, the 'situation' based on tension between 4 characters, the weekly 'Archie vs. Meathead' confrontations, Carroll O'Connor's activism vs his iconic bigot character)

3. Key themes/episodes

a. the pilot, the disclaimer and 'the flush heard round the world', the expected backlash

b. liberals vs conservatives

c. homosexuality (the fifth episode and Nixon's taped, homophobic reaction)

d. transexuals (the 'Leslie' character, from slapstick treatment to shaking Edith's faith in God when the character is killed in a hate crime)

e. racism (the Sammy Davis Jr episode; the black neighbors, etc.) & anti-Semitism

f. other conservative issues (e.g., Archie's anti-gun-control speech, calling for guns on planes, has even been parrotted recently)

4. A network of spin-offs dominate the airwaves (The Jeffersons, Maud, etc.) & sister-projects by Norman Lear (Sanford and Son & many others)

5. The end of the era in the late 70s & lasting effects (notably through syndication), its importance today

More informations on https://www.histoireenseries.com