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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Sitcoms"”.
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Reading Between the Lines: A Study of Dialogue in Two British Sitcoms
This paper analyses whether writers of comedy can give depth and insight into their characters by using dialogue to replace the elements that traditionally enhance the recipients’ enjoyment and immersion in the narrative.To address this question, I chose to use situation comedy as an exemplar of a …
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Contentious comedy : negotiating issues of form, content, and representation in American sitcoms of the post-network era
… of the audience, it further demonstrates how sitcoms have become more distinctive, original, and contentious in the process.
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Gender, Humor and Quality of Life in Workplace Sitcoms: A Content Analysis Examining Agency in Post-Recession Situation Comedies
… representations in post-recession workplace sitcoms using a typology developed using Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. 100 episodes of programming were analyzed by five graduate researchers for a total of 2579 cases. Though men dominated the sample, results were dissimilar from previous findings …
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The stages of development in the portrayal of African-Americans in television comedy
… development of African Americans in television sitcoms. By reexamining the initial research by Riggs (1991) and extending it, I will introduce a new stage focusing on contemporary sitcoms; According to Riggs' (1991), study on the utilization and development of African Americans in television can …
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"Our real family, the one we chose" : the function of comfort in the sitcom family.
… a form of comfort for the viewer. The original sitcoms of the 1950s were filled with themes that reinforced the stability of the traditional family model after the cultural shifts during the world wars. While that style of sitcom and its family has changed, its function to the viewer has largely …
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Second Story Television: Multi-Camera Sitcom Spaces, Objects, and the Suburban Spatial Imaginary
… spatial imaginary with regard to multi-camera sitcoms from the 1990s. I contend that the physical flatness of the multi-camera set construction is tied to the ideological presentation of suburban life. Through a textual analysis of moments in these sitcoms, I explore how they (through their …
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Situation comedies and the single woman on television
… analysis of three twenty-first century American sitcoms, this dissertation investigates how television creators, writers, producers, and actors have interpreted the figure of the single woman and attempted to make her appealing and acceptable to a broad viewing audience. Because of its …
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A shanda fur de Yehudim: Jewishness in network sitcom television.
… fourth chapter studies Jewishness in the network sitcoms of the 1990s. The conclusions of the study focus on the state of Jewishness on network sitcom television at present, and ask what must be done within the industry to maintain a viable Jewish identity on network sitcom television in the …
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Excursus: Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media
… attempts to satisfy these desires with sitcoms, pharmaceutical ads, and political slander, respectively. Instead of communicating this message traditionally via voice and piano, prerecorded media serves as accompaniment to the soprano. I make the distinction in the title that the work is …
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Understanding escape: the development of the British-led escape organisation, the Pat Line, 1940-1942
… Escape and Von Ryan’s Express or long- running sitcoms such as ’Allo ’Allo quickly worked their way into the conversation. Admittedly, this had one advantage; it provided a discussion point and frame of reference for the topic and piqued general interest. Yet such popular impressions of escape …
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Producing Representation: Re-Visiting Jewish Women in/on the American Sitcom
… accounts to a textual analysis of the identified sitcoms, focusing on the decisions and mediations that take place in representing Jewishness and gender onscreen. This project acknowledges the necessarily complex nature of Jewish identity. I propose that Jewish women have come to stand in for a …
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Challenges and strategies of subtitling humour : a case study of the American sitcom Seinfeld, with particular reference to English and Arabic
… new model of analysing and subtitling humour in sitcoms is proposed, based on the GTVH and Pedersen’s (2005) model and the findings of the current study. This new model consists of the external and internal parameters of the joke. The new proposed model of analysing and subtitling humour …
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Flawed Masculinities: “Rupturing” 1950s/60s/70s British TV Sitcom via a Performance-led Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
… inspiration certain male characters from TV sitcoms from the 1950s-1970s. Those characters are: Tony Hancock (Hancock’s Half- Hour, 1956-59, BBC1 UK); Harold Steptoe (Steptoe and Son, 1962-65, BBC1 UK); and the two “Likely Lads”, Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, (Whatever Happened To The Likely …
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Sex and the City, Platinum Edition: How The Golden Girls Altered American Situation Comedy
When The Golden Girls premiered in 1985, the show helped usher in a new era in American situation comedy television. American audiences had never seen a situation comedy where a group of adult women were the focal point of each episode. There had certainly been programming prior to the show where …