Beyond Sitcom
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Beyond Sitcom
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Author : Antonio Savorelli
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-04-13
Beyond Sitcom written by Antonio Savorelli and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-13 with Performing Arts categories.
This book explores the mechanisms that have driven the evolution of televisual comedy from the classic sitcom, a genre deeply rooted in its theatrical origins, toward a more mature stage of television's history. It analyzes four comic series--Scrubs, The Office, The Comeback, and Ugly Betty--revealing how each separates itself from the traditional sitcom archetype and shows increased awareness of the comic genre. Throughout the author focuses on two cardinal themes: the relationship between comedy and euphoria; and the relationship between comic texts and reality.
Beyond Sitcom
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Author : Antonio Savorelli
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-04-27
Beyond Sitcom written by Antonio Savorelli and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-27 with Performing Arts categories.
This book explores the mechanisms that have driven the evolution of televisual comedy from the classic sitcom, a genre deeply rooted in its theatrical origins, toward a more mature stage of television's history. It analyzes four comic series--Scrubs, The Office, The Comeback, and Ugly Betty--revealing how each separates itself from the traditional sitcom archetype and shows increased awareness of the comic genre. Throughout the author focuses on two cardinal themes: the relationship between comedy and euphoria; and the relationship between comic texts and reality.
Open Tv
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Author : Aymar Jean Christian
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2018-01-09
Open Tv written by Aymar Jean Christian and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-09 with Social Science categories.
How the internet transformed television Before HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her response to the absence of diverse black characters on the small screen. Broad City, a feminist sitcom now on Comedy Central, originated as a web series on YouTube, developed directly out of funny women Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s real-life friendship. These unconventional stories took advantage of the freedom afforded outside the traditional television system: online. Open TV shows how we have left “the network era” far behind and entered the networked era, with the web opening up new possibilities for independent producers, entrepreneurs, and media audiences. Based on interviews with writers, producers, show-runners, and network executives, visits to festivals and award shows, and the experience of producing his own series, Aymar Jean Christian argues that the web brought innovation to television by opening up series development to new producers, fans, and sponsors that had previously been excluded. Online access to distribution provides creative freedom for indie producers, allows for more diverse storytelling from marginalized communities, and introduces new ways of releasing and awarding shows. Open TV is essential reading for anyone interested in the changing environment of television and how the internet can inspire alternatives to what’s on TV tonight.
Television Sitcom
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Author : Brett Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-11-17
Television Sitcom written by Brett Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Despite its global reach, longstanding popularity, and immense profitability, sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on television and media. This book demonstrates that this lack needs to be sorely addressed, by dragging analysis of sitcom up to date, with a wealth of contemporary examples, a range of new approaches to the genre, and examination of the roles sitcom and comedy play within society. The book takes as its starting point the variety of ways in which sitcom has traditionally been explored. A chapter on genre examines the history and development of sitcom, and the institutional structures which produce it. There is also analysis of differences between sitcoms produced in a range of countries, and what happens when a programme gets sold abroad and remade. A chapter on representation explores the debates about the ways in which sitcom chooses who to make jokes about and why, and whether this matters. And a chapter on performance argues that this is a vital, and underexplored, aspect of sitcom's funniness, and interrogates the ways in which comic actors make their performance funny. With specific case studies on Will and Grace, The Office, and The Cosby Show, as well as analysis of a broad range of contemporary and historical examples throughout, this book will be of interest to students of sitcom and comedy, as well as those of television and popular culture.
Beyond The Kitchen
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Author : Angelos Siampakoulis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Beyond The Kitchen written by Angelos Siampakoulis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Beyond the Kitchen aims to propose an alternative view of thinking suburbia by suggesting the cultural and spatial consideration of its domesticity. Therefore, the thesis initiates by hypothesizing upon suburbia's contemporary popularity and proceeds through the understanding of the ranch-style typology as well as the urban and cultural forces that are at play. In this light, the research attempts to answer the following question: Can we find alternative, suburban models of living? The rationale behind this work lies in the recognition that the mid-century ranch-style house still characterizes the everyday life of the majority of suburban residents. To theorize a proposal of this nature, this thesis a) performs an instigation of the above-mentioned typology's various domestic facets and b) grounds a design proposal in Lakewood, California. The thesis begins with the proposition that the postwar ranch-style typology was a commodity, and chapter one is dedicated to an analysis of this position. By focusing on the suburban development of the city of Lakewood as a case study, my analysis reveals the methods through which the studied typology was commodified. This process, I argue, was threefold and involved: the myth of 'California Dreaming," the construction techniques used for the building of the modem ranch-style, and the use of patter catalogs for its marketing. Bound upon this recognition of commodification and hypothesizing on television's increasing popularity after the Second World War, the second part of the research asks: In a historical period steeped in technological innovation and progress, how did television influence the organization of the interior space of the suburban house? The third part of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis between aspects of commodification and spectacle, focusing on the domestic areas of ranch-style's kitchen and front lawn. Methodologically, the thesis draws evidence from literature, archival research, online surveys, site visits, interviews, and the design proposal. It employs drawing in three ways: for archival material analysis, for argument augmentation, and for design implementation. With its design, the research investigates the possibility of two strategies: the restructuring of the suburban domestic space and the reconsideration of the plot's property line. Conditioned upon this apparatus, a new domestic suburban form comes to question-among other design exercises-the possibility of a collective living project.
The Sitcom
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Author : Jeremy G. Butler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-09
The Sitcom written by Jeremy G. Butler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.
In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre’s position as a major media artefact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the USA. Everyone loves the sitcom genre; and yet, paradoxically, everyone hates the sitcom, too. This book examines themes of gender, race, ethnicity, and the family that are always at the core of humor in our culture, tracking how those discourses are embedded in the sitcom’s relatively rigid storytelling structures. Butler pays particular attention to the sitcom’s position in today’s post-network media landscape and sample analyses of Sex and the City, Black-ish, The Simpsons, and The Andy Griffith Show illuminate how the sitcom is infused with foundational American values. At once contemporary and reflective, The Sitcom is a must-read for students and scholars of television, comedy, and broader media studies, and a great classroom text.
Beyond A Joke
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Author : Neil Archer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-27
Beyond A Joke written by Neil Archer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-27 with Performing Arts categories.
At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James Bond meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly after, the 'Queen' hurled herself out of a helicopter, her Union Jack parachute guiding her down to the Olympic Stadium. What it is about moments such as these that define both a particular idea of Britishness and a particular type of British film comedy? How has British cinema exploited parody as a means of negotiating its sense of identity? How does this function within a globalized marketplace and in the face of dominant Hollywood cinema? Beyond a Joke explores the myriad ways British film culture has used forms of parody, from the 1960s to the present day. It provides a contextual and textual analysis of a range of works that, while popular, have only rarely been the subject of serious academic attention – from Morecambe and Wise to Shaun of the Dead to the London 2012 Olympics' opening ceremony. Combining the methodologies both of film history and film theory, Beyond a Joke locates parody within specific industrial and cultural moments, while also looking in detail at the aesthetics of parody as a mode. Ultimately, such works are shown to be a form of culturally specific film or televisual product for exporting to the global market, in which 'Britishness', shaped in self-mocking and ironic terms, becomes the selling point. Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout with a diverse range of examples, Beyond a Joke is the first book to explore parody within a specifically British context and makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on both British and global film culture.
The Sitcom Reader Second Edition
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Author : Mary M. Dalton
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2016-05-12
The Sitcom Reader Second Edition written by Mary M. Dalton and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-12 with Performing Arts categories.
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy. This updated and expanded anthology offers an engaging overview of one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming: the sitcom. Through an analysis of formulaic conventions, the contributors address critical identities such as race, gender, and sexuality, and overarching structures such as class and family. Organized by decade, chapters explore postwar domestic ideology and working-class masculinity in the 1950s, the competing messages of power and subordination in 1960s magicoms, liberated women and gender in 1970s workplace comedies and 1980s domestic comedies, liberal feminism in the 1990s, heteronormative narrative strategies in the 2000s, and unmasking myths of gender in the 2010s. From I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners to Roseanne, Cybill, and Will & Grace to Transparent and many others in between, The Sitcom Reader provides a comprehensive examination of this popular genre that will help readers think about the shows and themselves in new contexts.
Friends
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Author : Simone Knox
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Friends written by Simone Knox and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers a long overdue, extensive study of one of the most beloved television shows: Friends. Why has this sitcom become the seminal success that it is? And how does it continue to engage viewers around the world a quarter century after its first broadcast? Featuring original interviews with key creative personnel (including co-creator Marta Kauffman and executive producer Kevin S. Bright), the book provides answers by identifying a strategy of intimacy that informs Friends’ use of humour, performance, style and set design. The authors provide fascinating analyses of some of the most well-remembered scenes—the one where Ross can’t get his leather pants back on, and Ross and Rachel’s break-up, to name just a couple—and reflect on how and why A-list guest performances sometimes fell short of the standards set by the ensemble cast. Also considered are the iconic look of Monica’s apartment as well as the programme’s much discussed politics of representation and the critical backlash it has received in recent years. An exploration of Joey, the infamous spin-off, and several attempts to adapt Friends’ successful formula across the globe, round out the discussion, with insights into mistranslated jokes and much more. For students, scholars, creative industry practitioners and fans alike, this is a compelling read that lets us glimpse behind the scenes of what has become a cultural phenomenon and semi-permanent fixture in many of our homes.
Please Sir The Official History
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Author : David Barry
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2020-11-24
Please Sir The Official History written by David Barry and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First broadcast in 1968, Please Sir! is generally considered to hold a firm place in the distinguished ranks of the greatest British sitcoms. David Barry - known to millions as mummy's boy Frankie Abbott - was a fan favourite, appearing in all three series as well as both the 1971 feature film and spin-off TV show The Fenn Street Gang. In this entertaining and expertly-written memoir, David tells the whole story, from his own audition all the way through to what the gang are doing today. Along the way he shares hilarious anecdotes and fond memories that for the first time give a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to film the much-loved show that has remained a smash hit for more than fifty years. This journey through the golden age of British sitcom and beyond will bring back all kinds of memories for those lucky enough to have seen Please Sir! first-time around... and is an enjoyable waltz through TV history for those that didn't. If you've ever wondered what it was like to play a key part in one of the best-loved British sitcoms of all time, this is the perfect book for you!