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Television sitcom production at the BBC 1973-1984: an integrated approach [PDF]
, 2005 Between 1973 and 1984 BBC Television produced and transmitted a number of popular situation comedies. These were designed to be light-hearted, inoffensive entertainment, but they nevertheless explored, reflected and reinforced changing public attitudes ...
Wendy Phillips
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Sitcoms' scintillating skin surveyors. [PDF]
Int J Womens Dermatol, 2019 Vatanchi M, Zelac DE.
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Los sitcoms como herramienta para el aprendizaje cultural en el aula de inglés [PDF]
, 2019 Con la llegada de la globalización y la consolidación definitiva del inglés como lengua internacional, el lugar de la cultura en el proceso de aprendizaje de esta lengua también ha cambiado.
Larrea Espinar, Angela María +1 more
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Losers, food, and sex: clerical masculinity in the BBC sitcom Rev [PDF]
, 2016 Clerical masculinities, much like their lay/secular counterparts, often appear unchanging because they are the products of naturalization processes. Clerical masculinities, however, are far from being stable but the live and breathe the dynamics of both ...
Ornella, Alexander
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, 2016 This project consists of a sitcom conception entitled The Unemployed, and his ambition is to be displayed on television, preferably in general channel. It is a situation comedy that will speak about unemployment and tells the story of a man aged 37, unemployed, that therefore sees all that he built, crumbling: his personal and family life.
Búzio, David Marco Fernandes
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Friends reconsidered: Cultural politics, intergenerationality, and afterlives [PDF]
, 2018 With the passing in 2014 of the twentieth anniversary of its debut episode, the iconic millennial sitcom Friends retains a rare cultural currency and remains a crucial reference point for understanding the concerns of Generation X.
Cobb, Shelley, Ewen, Neil, Hamad, Hannah
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Queer resistances in the adult animated sitcom [PDF]
, 2011 This article studies the representation of queer characters and themes in the contemporary adult animated sitcom. We argue that even though popular culture is often assumed to reiterate and consolidate the discourse of heteronormativity, adult animated ...
Dhaenens, Frederik, Van Bauwel, Sofie
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Contemporary medical television and crisis in the NHS [PDF]
, 2016 This article maps the terrain of contemporary UK medical television, paying particular attention to Call the Midwife as its centrepiece, and situating it in contextual relation to the current crisis in the NHS. It provides a historical overview of UK and
Anderson M +26 more
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A Comedy of Errors or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sensibility‐Invariantism about ‘Funny’ [PDF]
, 2012 In this article, I argue that sensibility‐invariantism about ‘funny’ is defensible, not just as a descriptive hypothesis, but, as a normative position as well.
Doerfler, Ryan
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Implied...or implode? The Simpsons' carnivalesque Treehouse of Horror [PDF]
, 2010 Since 1990, The Simpsons’ annual “Treehouse of Horror” episodes have constituted a production sub-context within the series, having their own conventions and historical trajectory.
Jones, Steve
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