Hogan's Heroes

Shandley, Robert R.

Published by Wayne State University Press

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Even small volumes need friends and this one has had a few. Texas A&M University has provided me with an institutional home, brilliant colleagues, and energetic students for fteen years. The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University provided me an internal leave during which time I nished the rst draft of this project and began another. The Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures and the Film Studies Program have proven to be verdant elds of discussion and exchange. I would like to thank the series editors, Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, for supporting the project from the start. Annie Martin at Wayne State University Press has shown great patience in shepherding this project to completion. As always, my colleague Anne Morey has provided both intellectual support and critical feedback to my ideas. My wife, Linda Radzik, is my rst and best reader. She took particular pleasure in cutting large chunks of needless verbiage from the manuscript. I am glad to have offered her a place to take out her aggressions. I am not sure I will ever have another project that our daughter, Mary, will appreciate as much as this one. She

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watched all 168 episodes of Hogans Heroes with me, including multiple viewings of some of them. Somehow she has still become literate, talented, and intelligent, though the show certainly added to her gooness. My own siblings have been a far more important part of my life than they will ever realize. Whether well or poorly, they raised me. I watched my rst episode of Hogans Heroes in their company. Because of them I got to view age-inappropriate 1960s television shows such as Laugh-In, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and Love, American Style. More importantly, they did their best to look after me, keep me out of trouble, and challenge me. It is to them that I dedicate this book.

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