The Sitcom Reader Second Edition

Author : Mary M. Dalton,Laura R. Linder
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438461328

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The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition by Mary M. Dalton,Laura R. Linder Pdf

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy. This updated and expanded anthology offers an engaging overview of one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming: the sitcom. Through an analysis of formulaic conventions, the contributors address critical identities such as race, gender, and sexuality, and overarching structures such as class and family. Organized by decade, chapters explore postwar domestic ideology and working-class masculinity in the 1950s, the competing messages of power and subordination in 1960s magicoms, liberated women and gender in 1970s workplace comedies and 1980s domestic comedies, liberal feminism in the 1990s, heteronormative narrative strategies in the 2000s, and unmasking myths of gender in the 2010s. From I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners to Roseanne, Cybill, and Will & Grace to Transparent and many others in between, The Sitcom Reader provides a comprehensive examination of this popular genre that will help readers think about the shows and themselves in new contexts. For access to an online resource created by Mary Dalton, which includes interviews with contributors and course lectures, visit: The Sitcom Reader: A Companion Website @ https://build.zsr.wfu.edu/sitcomreader Mary M. Dalton is Professor of Communication and Film Studies at Wake Forest University and author of The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies, Second Revised Edition. Laura R. Linder, a retired Associate Professor of Media Studies, is the author of Public Access Television: America’s Electronic Soapbox. Together they coauthored Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television.

Author : Mary M. Dalton,Laura R. Linder
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482636

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The Sitcom Reader by Mary M. Dalton,Laura R. Linder Pdf

Offers a variety of perspectives on the sitcom genre and its influence on American culture. Despite the popularity of the sitcom, one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming, The Sitcom Reader is the first book to offer critical essays devoted specifically to the form. The contributors address important topics in relation to sitcoms, such as conventions of the form, the family, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, work and social class, and ideology, and they do so from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and media studies. Mary M. Dalton is Assistant Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University and the author of The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies. Laura R. Linder is Associate Professor of Media Arts at Marist College and the author of Public Access Television: America’s Electronic Soapbox.

Author : Mary M. Dalton,Laura R. Linder
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791465705

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The Sitcom Reader by Mary M. Dalton,Laura R. Linder Pdf

Offers a variety of perspectives on the sitcom genre and its influence on American culture.

Author : Pat Kirkham,Sarah A. Lichtman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350150591

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Screen Interiors by Pat Kirkham,Sarah A. Lichtman Pdf

Covering everything from Hollywood films to Soviet cinema, London's queer spaces to spaceships, horror architecture and action scenes, Screen Interiors presents an array of innovative perspectives on film design. Essays address questions related to interiors and objects in film and television from the early 1900s up until the present day. Authors explore how interior film design can facilitate action and amplify tensions, how rooms are employed as structural devices and how designed spaces can contribute to the construction of identities. Case studies look at disjunctions between interior and exterior design and the inter-relationship of production design and narrative. With a lens on class, sexuality and identity across a range of films including Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913), The Servant (1963), Caravaggio (1986), and Passengers (2016), and illustrated with film stills throughout, Screen Interiors showcases an array of methodological approaches for the study of film and design history.

Author : Djoymi Baker,Jessica Balanzategui,Diana Sandars
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000900064

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Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing by Djoymi Baker,Jessica Balanzategui,Diana Sandars Pdf

Focusing on Netflix’s child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle of dark science fiction, horror, and fantasy television under Netflix’s "Family Watch Together TV" tag. Using a ground-breaking mix of methods including audience research, interface, and textual analysis, the book demonstrates how Netflix is producing dark family telefantasy content that is both reshaping child and family-friendly TV genres and challenging earlier broadcast TV models around child-appropriate family viewing. It illuminates how Netflix encourages family audiences to "watch together" through intergenerational dynamics that work on and offscreen. The chapters in this book explore how this "Netflixication" of family television developed across landmark examples including Stranger Things, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and even Squid Game. The book outlines how Netflix is consolidating a new dark family terrain in the streaming sector, which is unsettling older concepts of family viewing, leading to considerable audience and critical confusion around target audiences and viewer expectations. This book will be of particular interest to upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and scholars in the fields of television studies, screen genre studies, childhood studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Katja Schulze
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839462607

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The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor by Katja Schulze Pdf

Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual comedy genre, Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come into view. Her study outlines case studies of popular sitcoms, like Parks and Recreation, Mike & Molly, and the revival of hit-sitcom Roseanne, thereby unearthing how the shows are able to stage humor as mass-mediated deprecation - a signifying practice with its own poetics and politics.

Author : Vincent LoBrutto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781440829734

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TV in the USA [3 volumes] by Vincent LoBrutto Pdf

This three-volume set is a valuable resource for researching the history of American television. An encyclopedic range of information documents how television forever changed the face of media and continues to be a powerful influence on society. What are the reasons behind enduring popularity of television genres such as police crime dramas, soap operas, sitcoms, and "reality TV"? What impact has television had on the culture and morality of American life? Does television largely emulate and reflect real life and society, or vice versa? How does television's influence differ from that of other media such as newspapers and magazines, radio, movies, and the Internet? These are just a few of the questions explored in the three-volume encyclopedia TV in the USA: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas. This expansive set covers television from 1950 to the present day, addressing shows of all genres, well-known programs and short-lived series alike, broadcast on the traditional and cable networks. All three volumes lead off with a keynote essay regarding the technical and historical features of the decade(s) covered. Each entry on a specific show investigates the narrative, themes, and history of the program; provides comprehensive information about when the show started and ended, and why; and identifies the star players, directors, producers, and other key members of the crew of each television production. The set also features essays that explore how a particular program or type of show has influenced or reflected American society, and it includes numerous sidebars packed with interesting data, related information, and additional insights into the subject matter.

Author : Joanne Morreale
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815629834

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Critiquing the Sitcom by Joanne Morreale Pdf

This is the first anthology that examines the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race, and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as I Remember Mama (George Lipsitz’s “Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Woman’s Narrative”) to the more recent Roseanne (Kathleen Rowe Karlyn’s “Roseanne: Unruly Woman as a Domestic Goddess”). The volume also looks unflinchingly at major controversies; for example, the NAACP boycott of the stereotypical yet wildly popular Amos ‘n’ Andy and the queer reading of Laverne and Shirley. These diverse essays constitute a veritable history of postwar American mores. Some are classic, some forgotten, but all indicate the importance of considering text and subtext (social, historic, industrial) in the critical study of television. A final chapter by Joanne Morreale bids sitcoms adieu with the “cultural spectacle of Seinfeld’s last episode.”

Author : Brett Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015063652583

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Television Sitcom by Brett Mills Pdf

Despite its global reach, longstanding popularity, and immense profitability, sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on television and media. This book demonstrates that this lack needs to be sorely addressed, by dragging analysis of sitcom up to date, with a wealth of contemporary examples, a range of new approaches to the genre, and examination of the roles sitcom and comedy play within society. The book takes as its starting point the variety of ways in which sitcom has traditionally been explored. A chapter on genre examines the history and development of sitcom, and the institutional structures which produce it. There is also analysis of differences between sitcoms produced in a range of countries, and what happens when a programme gets sold abroad and remade. A chapter on representation explores the debates about the ways in which sitcom chooses who to make jokes about and why, and whether this matters. And a chapter on performance argues that this is a vital, and underexplored, aspect of sitcom's funniness, and interrogates the ways in which comic actors make their performance funny. With specific case studies on Will and Grace, The Office, and The Cosby Show, as well as analysis of a broad range of contemporary and historical examples throughout, this book will be of interest to students of sitcom and comedy, as well as those of television and popular culture.

Author : Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315524511

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Television and Serial Adaptation by Shannon Wells-Lassagne Pdf

As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed to its status as narrative art (capable of translating canonical texts onto the screen), television adaptations have seemingly been relegated to the miniseries or classic serial. From remakes and reboots to transmedia storytelling, loose adaptations or adaptations which last but a single episode, the recycling of pre-existing narrative is a practice that is just as common in television as in film, and this text seeks to rectify that oversight, examining series from M*A*S*H to Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice to Castle.

Author : T.A. Williams
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800320833

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Second Chances in Chianti by T.A. Williams Pdf

Alice thought her future was set in stone, until her past came knocking... Alice Butler starred in a successful US sitcom until tensions in the cast and crew caused the show to be cancelled. Now, five years later and working towards her dream job in art history, she’s called back for a revival of the show. It can only end in disaster, surely? Flown to a villa in Chianti to meet with the rest of the cast, Alice must decide where her future lies – with her boyfriend, David, who laps up the Hollywood company, or with the mysterious Matt, who shies away from public attention? A beautiful romance for fans of Lucy Coleman and Trisha Ashley.

Author : Simone Knox,Kai Hanno Schwind
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030254292

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Friends by Simone Knox,Kai Hanno Schwind Pdf

This book offers a long overdue, extensive study of one of the most beloved television shows: Friends. Why has this sitcom become the seminal success that it is? And how does it continue to engage viewers around the world a quarter century after its first broadcast? Featuring original interviews with key creative personnel (including co-creator Marta Kauffman and executive producer Kevin S. Bright), the book provides answers by identifying a strategy of intimacy that informs Friends’ use of humour, performance, style and set design. The authors provide fascinating analyses of some of the most well-remembered scenes—the one where Ross can’t get his leather pants back on, and Ross and Rachel’s break-up, to name just a couple—and reflect on how and why A-list guest performances sometimes fell short of the standards set by the ensemble cast. Also considered are the iconic look of Monica’s apartment as well as the programme’s much discussed politics of representation and the critical backlash it has received in recent years. An exploration of Joey, the infamous spin-off, and several attempts to adapt Friends’ successful formula across the globe, round out the discussion, with insights into mistranslated jokes and much more. For students, scholars, creative industry practitioners and fans alike, this is a compelling read that lets us glimpse behind the scenes of what has become a cultural phenomenon and semi-permanent fixture in many of our homes.

Author : Mary M. Dalton,Laura R. Linder
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Teachers on television
ISBN : 0820497150

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Teacher TV by Mary M. Dalton,Laura R. Linder Pdf

Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television from the earliest sitcoms to contemporary dramas and comedies. Both topical and chronological, the book follows a general course across decades and focuses on dominant themes and representations, linking some of the most popular shows of the era to larger cultural themes. Some of these include: - a view of how gender is socially constructed in popular culture and in society - racial tensions throughout the decades - educational privileges for elite students - the mundane and the provocative in teacher depictions on television - the view of gender and sexual orientation through a new lens - life in inner-city public schools - the culture of testing and dropping out Every pre-service and classroom teacher should read this book. It is also a valuable text for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level courses in media and education as well.

Author : Jess Oppenheimer,Gregg Oppenheimer
Publisher : Gregg Oppenheimer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815605846

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Laughs, Luck . . . and Lucy by Jess Oppenheimer,Gregg Oppenheimer Pdf

The man Lucille Ball called the brains of I Love Lucy gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium. Forty-five years after its debut, it remains a favourite the world over.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Television
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115060027

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Emmy by Anonim Pdf