M*A*S*H

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Iwould like to thank the staff at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, especially the accommodating people in the Arts Library Special Collections who assisted me in locating research material in the Larry Gelbart, Burt Metcalfe, and Gene Reynolds files. My sincere thanks also goes to the staff at UCLA’s Film and Television Archive who allowed me to watch otherwise unavailable episodes of AfterMASH. Dr. Paul Edwards and his staff at the Center for the Study for the Korean War (Independence, Missouri) were helpful in providing resources and documents related to this topic as well. I have drawn inspiration from my former UCLA professor and mentor Vivian Sobchack, whose intellectual rigor and vitality as a media studies scholar continue to astound me. The always-sensible editors at Wayne State University Press, in particular Annie Martin and Barry Keith Grant, were a joy to work with. Finally, the people who mean the most to me—my parents, Donna and Harry Diffrient, and my wife, Hye Seung Chung (who not only watched all 251 episodes of M*A*S*H with me but also offered many insights)—have supported my academic work vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS for years, giving me guidance through difficult times. I could not have written this book without their love and steadfast encouragement. viii Acknowledgments ...