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Author | : Antonio Savorelli |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2010-04-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786459921 |
This book explores the mechanisms that have driven the evolution of televisual comedy from the classic sitcom, a genre deeply rooted in its theatrical origins, toward a more mature stage of television's history. It analyzes four comic series--Scrubs, The Office, The Comeback, and Ugly Betty--revealing how each separates itself from the traditional sitcom archetype and shows increased awareness of the comic genre. Throughout the author focuses on two cardinal themes: the relationship between comedy and euphoria; and the relationship between comic texts and reality.
Author | : Antonio Savorelli |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786458437 |
This book explores the mechanisms that have driven the evolution of televisual comedy from the classic sitcom, a genre deeply rooted in its theatrical origins, toward a more mature stage of television's history. It analyzes four comic series--Scrubs, The Office, The Comeback, and Ugly Betty--revealing how each separates itself from the traditional sitcom archetype and shows increased awareness of the comic genre. Throughout the author focuses on two cardinal themes: the relationship between comedy and euphoria; and the relationship between comic texts and reality.
Author | : Aymar Jean Christian |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1479815977 |
Introduction: independents change the channel -- Developing open tv: innovation for the open network, 1995-2005 -- Open tv production: revaluing creative labor -- Open tv representation: reforming cultural politics -- Open tv distribution: struggling for an independent market -- Scaling open tv: the challenges of big data television -- Epilogue: open tv and the future of the networked era
Author | : Harry Castleman |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
Covering 40 years of TV series, this book concentrates on what is likely to be on today in prime time, including network, cable, and local independent programming.
Author | : Brett Mills |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2005-11-17 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
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.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2044 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Television broadcasting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aymar Jean Christian |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 147984375X |
How the internet transformed television Before HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her response to the absence of diverse black characters on the small screen. Broad City, a feminist sitcom now on Comedy Central, originated as a web series on YouTube, developed directly out of funny women Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s real-life friendship. These unconventional stories took advantage of the freedom afforded outside the traditional television system: online. Open TV shows how we have left “the network era” far behind and entered the networked era, with the web opening up new possibilities for independent producers, entrepreneurs, and media audiences. Based on interviews with writers, producers, show-runners, and network executives, visits to festivals and award shows, and the experience of producing his own series, Aymar Jean Christian argues that the web brought innovation to television by opening up series development to new producers, fans, and sponsors that had previously been excluded. Online access to distribution provides creative freedom for indie producers, allows for more diverse storytelling from marginalized communities, and introduces new ways of releasing and awarding shows. Open TV is essential reading for anyone interested in the changing environment of television and how the internet can inspire alternatives to what’s on TV tonight.
Author | : Havelock Ellis |
Publisher | : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924, 1925 printing. |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : English essays |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph R. Dominick |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Broadcasting/Cable and Beyond provides a comprehensive yet manageable view of the broadcasting and cable industries, with coverage of history, regulation, economics, and career opportunities. The third edition has been fully revised and updated and a wealth of new anecdotes and relevant boxes have been added throughout the book. New to this edition are chapter-opening "freeze frames" - which highlight various facts and figures relating to chapter content and pique students' curiosity - and additional sections throughout the book on the new technologies that are building the information superhighway. Additionally, the chapters on audio and video technology (formerly Chapters 12 and 13) have been placed earlier in the book to follow respective history chapters and more accurately reflect the sequence used to teach the course.
Author | : Robert L. Hilliard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
The ability of radio and television to educate, enlighten, and stimulate the contemporary mind is perhaps the most important of all modern technological developments. The Broadcast Century and Beyond, Third Edition, places the communication revolution in a comprehensive chronological context, allowing readers to fully grasp the media's profound impact on the political, social, and economic spheres.