The sitcom:
The Sitcom explores the production, viewership, and script of this popular genre, drawing on a range of examples and case studies in order to map its characteristics, social significance, and guilty pleasures. Brett Mills takes a global approach, examining international examples as well as British a...
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| Summary: | The Sitcom explores the production, viewership, and script of this popular genre, drawing on a range of examples and case studies in order to map its characteristics, social significance, and guilty pleasures. Brett Mills takes a global approach, examining international examples as well as British and American broadcasts, isolating the relationships between sitcom, nation, and identity. |
| Item Description: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | VI, 182 S. |
| ISBN: | 0748637516 9780748637515 0748637524 9780748637522 |
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Contents
Acknowledgements
vi
1
Intxoductìon
1
2
Genre
24
3
Industry
50
4
Programmes
75
5
Audiences
100
6
The Future
124
Appendix
147
Bibliography
151
Index
173
Even though sitcom has been a consistent staple of broadcasting the world over,
rigorous academic work on it as a genre remains limited. This book examines
sitcom in terms of production, audiences and texts, drawing on a range of
examples and case studies in order to examine the genre
s
characteristics,
social position, and pleasures. In highlighting this long-lasting and popular
form of television, it offers insights into genre theory and explores how the
comic impetus of sitcom forms a central characteristic of the genre.
Brett Mills takes a global view of sitcom, examining international examples
as well as those produced by the more dominant British and American
broadcasting industries, in order to explore the relationships between sitcom,
nation, and identity. Sitcoms considered include Extras, My Family, Curb
Your Enthusiasm, One Foot in the Grave, Peep Show, Summer Heights High,
Papetown, ma Friends.
Key Features
•
Draws oil original research into the television industry, incorporating
interviews with sitcom writers, directors and producers
•Includes research on audience responses to sitcom, with reference to
offence,;pleasure, and social change
•
Offers detailed textual analyses of a range of programmes, drawing
on Humour Theory to explore the ways in which jokes and comic
■moments work
•
Outlines the future for sitcom, considering new media developments
and the changing relationships between broadcasters and audiences I |
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