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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.
The Sitcom
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Author : Brett Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The 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 2009 with Art categories.
This book offers an overview of the debates surrounding the sitcom genre.
Writing Television Sitcoms Revised
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Author : Evan S. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-12-01
Writing Television Sitcoms Revised written by Evan S. Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This new edition of Writing Television Sitcoms features the essential information every would-be teleplay writer needs to know to break into the business, including: - Updated examples from contemporary shows such as 30 Rock, The Office and South Park - Shifts in how modern stories are structured - How to recognize changes in taste and censorship - The reality of reality television - How the Internet has created series development opportunities - A refined strategy for approaching agents and managers - How pitches and e-queries work - or don't - The importance of screenwriting competitions
Television Sitcom And Cultural Crisis
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Author : Holly Willson Holladay
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-06-21
Television Sitcom And Cultural Crisis written by Holly Willson Holladay and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-21 with Social Science categories.
This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises. By drawing on Gramscian notion of crisis and the understanding that crises are overlapping, interconnected, and mutually constitutive, the essays in this collection demonstrate that situation comedies do more than make us laugh; they also help us understand the complexities of our social world’s moments of crisis. Each chapter takes up the televisual representation of a modern cultural crisis in a contemporary sitcom and is grounded in the extensive body of literature that suggests that levity is a powerful mechanism to make sense of and cope with these difficult cultural experiences. Divided into thematic sections that highlight crises of institutions and systems, identity and representation, and speculation and futurism, this book will interest scholars of media and cultural studies, political economy, communication studies, and humor studies.
The Great Tv Sitcom Book
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Author : Rick Mitz
language : en
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Release Date : 1988
The Great Tv Sitcom Book written by Rick Mitz and has been published by Perigee Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Situation comedies (Television programs) categories.
Written with a wit and intelligence that captures each show's inimitable style and humor, this book offers everything fans want to know about TV sitcoms, all plentifully illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
Critiquing The Sitcom
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Author : Joanne Morreale
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2002-12-01
Critiquing The Sitcom written by Joanne Morreale and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This is the first anthology that examines the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race, and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as I Remember Mama (George Lipsitz’s “Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Woman’s Narrative”) to the more recent Roseanne (Kathleen Rowe Karlyn’s “Roseanne: Unruly Woman as a Domestic Goddess”). The volume also looks unflinchingly at major controversies; for example, the NAACP boycott of the stereotypical yet wildly popular Amos ‘n’ Andy and the queer reading of Laverne and Shirley. These diverse essays constitute a veritable history of postwar American mores. Some are classic, some forgotten, but all indicate the importance of considering text and subtext (social, historic, industrial) in the critical study of television. A final chapter by Joanne Morreale bids sitcoms adieu with the “cultural spectacle of Seinfeld’s last episode.”
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.
The Dick Van Dyke Show
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Author : Joanne Morreale
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-01
The Dick Van Dyke Show written by Joanne Morreale and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Fans of The Dick Van Dyke Show and readers interested in American television and cultural history will appreciate this insightful reading of the series.
Sitcom
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Author : Saul Austerlitz
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Sitcom written by Saul Austerlitz and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The form is so elemental, so basic, that we have difficulty imagining a time before it existed: a single set, fixed cameras, canned laughter, zany sidekicks, quirky family antics. Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler America—until suddenly the artificial boundary between the world and television entertainment collapsed. In this book we can watch the growth of the sitcom, following the path that leads from Lucy to The Phil Silvers Show; from The Dick Van Dyke Show to The Mary Tyler Moore Show; from M*A*S*H to Taxi; from Cheers to Roseanne; from Seinfeld to Curb Your Enthusiasm; and from The Larry Sanders Show to 30 Rock. Each sitcom episode is a self-enclosed world, a brief overturning of the established order of its universe before returning to the precise spot from which it had begun. In twenty-four episodes, Sitcom surveys the history of the form, and functions as both a TV mixtape of fondly remembered shows that will guide us to notable series and larger trends, and a carefully curated guided tour through the history of one of our most treasured art forms. Saul Austerlitz is the author of Another Fine Mess: A History of the American Film Comedy, named by Booklist as one of the ten best arts books of 2010, and Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video from the Beatles to the White Stripes. His work has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Slate, and elsewhere.
Blockbuster Tv
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Author : Janet Staiger
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2000-10
Blockbuster Tv written by Janet Staiger and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Examines four hit US sitcomes - "All in the Family", "The Beverley Hillbillies", "Laverne and Shirley" and "The Cosby Show." This book seeks to account for the appeal of these sitcoms, detailing the factors that go into the construction of mass audiences.