Author : Robin R. Means Coleman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815331254
Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been depicted in Black situation comedies-from 1950's Beulah to contemporary series like Martin and Living Single.
Author : Dominic Molon
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :
Essays by Dominic Molon and Michael Rooks. Excerpt by David Sedaris. Foreward by Judith Richards.
Author : Al Christie
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Motion picture authorship
ISBN :
Author : D.T. Klika
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1501327380
Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath & Kim, in order to reveal the essential elements that must exist in a sitcom before even the first joke is written. Original in its approach, D.T. Klika uncovers major findings about the sitcom as well as human behavior and relationships that we find 'arresting' and even “familial”. By offering a new way of reading the sitcom using psychoanalytic theory, this book can be used as a basis for engaging in critical discourses as well as textual analysis of programs. Psychoanalytic theory enables a reading of character motivations and relationships, in turn elucidating the power struggle that exists between characters in this form of comedy. Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis shines a light on what is at play in the sitcom that makes us laugh, and why we love the characters we do, only to discover that this form of comedy is more complex than we first thought.
Author : Mitchell E. Shapiro
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476623406
A number of books and articles have been written ranking the best situation comedies of all time. These have all had something in common--subjective criteria based on the authors' opinions. This book attempts an objective ranking of the best 100 American sitcoms, based on a mathematical formula taking into account four factors: ratings, longevity, peer acceptance and spawning of other programs (spin-offs). The authors considered a field of 377 series which met at least one of four criteria: aired for at least three seasons; rated among top 30 series in at least one season; received at least one major Emmy nomination; or spawned at least one other series. A critical essay is provided for each series, along with air dates and cast listings.
Author : Bill Persky
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627040006
If you've watched TV in the last 50 years, you already love Bill Persky. He discovered Goldie Hawn, gave Kelsey Grammer his first television job, created the ground breaking TV series "That Girl" and won 5 Emmy Awards. Raising his three daughters as a single parent, Bill Persky's life has been its own never ending situation comedy helping him write The Dick Van Dyke Show, Welcome Back Kotter, Who's The Boss, Kate & Allie, Bill Cosby and Sid Caesar, this book is the sitcom he has lived. A wonderful inside look at television and life in the chaotic past 50 years. Among the marquee names that sparkled brightly in Persky's universe are Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Cosby, Sid Caesar, Steve Allen, Goldie Hawn, Peter Sellers, Susan St. James, Jane Curtin, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Tim Conway, Andy Williams, Cary Grant and The Smothers Brothers.
Author : Joanne Morreale
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780815629832
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 : Katie Bailey
Publisher : Eleventh Avenue Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2021-06-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781777587079
Conor Brady is the hottest man I have ever laid eyes on. Ever. He's also my new roommate. In the past few days, I became jobless, homeless, and boyfriendless. So, I did what any 28-year-old woman with her life together would do: I ran. Far, far away from my life in New York and straight to my big brother's house in Atlanta. Only, it turns out that my brother is away on a business trip. And, he failed to tell me that a full-on, godlike hottie-who happens to be a premier house flipper-has taken up residence in the spare bedroom while his enormous new house is being renovated. There's a million reasons why I shouldn't fall for Conor. But our chemistry is undeniable. Which means I have a teeny, tiny situation on my hands... The Roommate Situation is a laugh-out-loud funny, swoony, closed door romantic comedy. Expect some mild language and suggestive jokes alongside sizzling hot chemistry and tension you could cut with a knife-all without the explicit scenes.
Author : Mary M. Dalton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791465707
Offers a variety of perspectives on the sitcom genre and its influence on American culture.
Author : Victoria O'Donnell
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1483377709
Television Criticism, Third Edition by Victoria O'Donnell provides a foundational approach to the nature of television criticism. Rhetorical studies, cultural studies, representation, narrative theories, and postmodernism are introduced for greater understanding and appreciation of the critical perspectives on television with in-depth methods of criticism. Illustrated with contemporary examples, this updated Third Edition includes a new, extensive sample critical analysis of The Big Bang Theory and reflects recent changes in the ways television is viewed across multiple devices and the impact of the Internet on television.
