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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Sitcom"”.
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"Our real family, the one we chose" : the function of comfort in the sitcom family.
Throughout history, the sitcom has continually been used as 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 …
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Contentious comedy : negotiating issues of form, content, and representation in American sitcoms of the post-network era
This thesis explores the way in which the institutional changes that have occurred within the post-network 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 …
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A Corpus-based analysis of the Construction of Identities in the BBC Sitcom Citizen Khan
… of studies post 9-11 have critically evaluated the representations of Islam and Muslims in the media. In spite of this, very little work has focused on portrayals of Muslims in fictional television programming. This thesis aims to address this gap by investigating language usage and the …
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Producing Representation: Re-Visiting Jewish Women in/on the American Sitcom
This dissertation examines the depiction of young, liberal, Jewish womanhood on the American television sitcom through the subjective experiences of television production workers, the representations they produce, and the conceptual audiences they produce them for. It grapples with the …
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They Certainly Have the Rhetoric: Brexit and the Irish Border in the Mockumentary Soft Border Patrol
The objective of my thesis is to explore how popular culture, in particular, the British mockumentary titled Soft Border Patrol (2018-), portrays and responds to the political discourse generated by Brexit. The years following the referendum of 2016 on whether the United Kingdom should stay within …