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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Television Comedy"”.
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Scottish television comedy audiences
… representations of Scottishness in contemporary television comedy. The thesis is in two related parts, articulating an exploration of genre, comedy and Scottish television texts with the theory, methodology and analysis of empirical audience research. The thesis begins by exploring how current …
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The stages of development in the portrayal of African-Americans in television comedy
… and 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 …
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“Luxury Items”: Discourses of Cultural Value in Creating Channel 4 Comedy
… that underpin the language used to construct television comedy at Channel 4 within three sites: broadcasting policy documents, interviews with Channel 4 heads of department and commissioners, and creative practitioners that have produced comedies for Channel 4 broadcast. In doing so this …
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Your Thoughts Projected: Television Comedies, Economic Content, and American Economic Attitudes, 1949-1990
… study analyzes the relationship between American television audiences and television comedies in the latter half of the twentieth century. The driving questions are how did television comedies depict economic content and how was that content related to American audiences' economic perceptions? By …
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The Adventures of Frank, Gordon, and Some Other People Too
… The author claims several film styles and television comedy genre, found in the likes of Monty Python and The Upright Citizen’s Brigade, as the multiple muse that informs the project. The central theme of friendship dynamics are explored in this original work that comprises the concluding …
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Sex and the City, Platinum Edition: How The Golden Girls Altered American Situation Comedy
… 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 before had …