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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Situation Comedy"”.
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Situation comedy and the female audience : A study of 'The Mistress'.
… the women in the audience, using Carla Lane's situation comedy, The Mistress [BBC], broadcast in 1985, as a case study. The project is entirely directed by the audience point of view.An eclectic multi-disciplinary approach was taken to devise an 'open' conceptual model of the audience which …
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Situation comedy and the female audience : a study of the mistress
… the women in the audience, using Carla Lane's situation comedy, The Mistress [BBC], broadcast in 1985, as a case study. The project is entirely directed by the audience point of view.</p> <p>An eclectic multi-disciplinary approach was taken to devise an 'open' conceptual model of the audience …
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Sex and the City, Platinum Edition: How The Golden Girls Altered American Situation Comedy
… 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 women held starring roles, but never …
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Pro-social and anti-social effects of television viewing on adolescents: Speculations based on family situation comedy content
… previous research finds that family oriented situation comedies are among children's favorite television programs. Ten episodes of each series were recorded and analyzed for their anti-social verbal content. The brother-sister sibling relationship was analyzed within each episode and coded …
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Kind world, cruel world, friends and heroes: A generic analysis of television police drama and situation comedy, 1982-1992
Significant elements of narrative clearly recur in television programs. They do so within a number of recognizable generic patterns which not only create narrative coherence but also advocate particular principles of social organization and practice within the context of the program--i.e., views of …
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Black women, HIV/AIDS, and the media: communicating an epidemic in the hip hop era
… analysis of the AIDS storyline on the black situation comedy Girlfriends, the AIDS character Ana Wallace in the HBO film Life Support, and the self-representation of Rae Lewis-Thornton on her personal health blog ""Diva living with AIDS."" Each text generates alternative representations of …
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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
… era of American television have impacted on the situation comedy in terms of form, content, and representation. This thesis argues that as one of television's most durable genres, the sitcom must be understood as a dynamic form that develops over time in response to changing social, cultural and …
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Television as cosmopolitan education: a comparative case study of Face Me and Smile and Modern Family
… of Korea, Modern Family (2009), an American situation comedy, and this study shows how television creates aesthetic experience in its distinctive way and how such experience can promote cosmopolitanism. Differing concepts of cosmopolitanism in the United States and Republic of Korea is also …
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Situation comedies and the single woman on television
… female character in twentieth century situation comedies and an in-depth 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 …
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Bringing up baby: representations of lone motherhood in modern popular culture
… were chosen from television soap opera and situation comedy (both of which deal mainly with family relationships and family situations) and popular, modern Hollywood films; three areas I considered to be central in helping me to gain an understanding of how the media construct meanings and …
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Independent Local Radio Drama: A Cultural, Historical And Regulatory Examination Of British Commercial Radio Drama.
… a golden age of successful populist drama and situation-comedy, which was gradually usurped by television. Dramatists like Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter reasserted radio drama with ground-breaking, innovative and avant-garde plays, but by the 1970’s radio drama occupied a precarious …
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Developing comic text/s : representations and presentations of Jewish cultural identity through the integration of stand-up and domestic comedy
… with the integration of the forms of stand-up comedy and domestic comedy in order to create a comic text. The comic text explores issues regarding the presentation and representation of Jewish cultural identity. The integration results in both the experienced and imagined truths of the …