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A Working-class Hero is Something to Be… Except in a Sitcom: Interrogating the Ideological Structures in the US-American Sitcom Married… with Children (Fox, 1986-1997) [PDF]
This article proposes to study the political ambiguities of the working-class family sitcom Married… with Children (Fox, 1986-1997) within the overall context of US-American sitcoms from the 1950s to the late 1990s.
David Roche
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Do Sitcom Conversations Fully Depict Those in Natural Settings: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis
An increasing number of studies in pragmatics, second language acquisition, and related fields have opted to use sitcom conversations as a substitute for natural conversations in their analyses.
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Close-up as a Marker of the Change of Genre Register in the Second Season of the Friends TV series [PDF]
The article examines the possibilities of the close-up as an independent artistic technique, using the example of Season 2 (19951996) of the Friends TV series.
Verevkina, Darya
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SITCoM: SiRGraF Integrated Tool for Coronal dynaMics
SiRGraF Integrated Tool for Coronal dynaMics (SITCoM) is based on the Simple Radial Gradient Filter used to filter the radial gradient in the white-light coronagraph images and bring out dynamic structures.
Purvi Udhwani +5 more
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This paper looks at the importance of aggressive humour in the discursive construction of a ‘Yakshini’ character in a popular Chinese sitcom, Ipartment. The exaggerated, aggressive nature of such a stereotypical character undermines traditional cultural ...
Ying Cao +3 more
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Alf (NBC, 1986-1990) : Quand la sitcom devient subversive
Alf was created by Paul Fusco and Ed Weinberger and broadcast on the NBC network from September 1986 to March 1990. Over the course of the series's four seasons, we follow the weird and wacky adventures of an alien from the planet Melmac whose spaceship ...
Jean Du Verger
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En el siglo XXI la nueva comedia televisiva adquiere una mayor centralidad en los discursos mediáticos y académicos. Este es el caso de la serie de ficción producida por Marvel Studios y Walt Disney Company: WandaVision (Schaeffer, 2021). El objetivo de
María José Higueras-Ruiz
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Come genere TV la sitcom - o situation comedy - appartiene alla serie episodica classica basata su puntata autonome, un gurppo di personaggi limitato, e ambientazioni fisse (la casa, il luogo di lavoro), e una "formula" narrativa definita dalla propria ...
Cinzia Scarpino
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Televisual Authorship and Comedy Showrunners: The Case of Greg Daniels
The article focuses on Greg Daniels, the acclaimed comedy showrunner whose credits include the US version of The Office (NBC, 2005-2013) as well as King of the Hill (Fox, 1997-2010), Space Force (Netflix, 2020-2022), and Upload (Amazon, 2020-).
Dawid Junke
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Cringe Histories: Harold Pinter and the Steptoes
This article argues that cringe humour in British television had begun at least by the early 1960s and derived from a theatre history in which conventions of Naturalism were modified by emergent British writers working with European avant-garde motifs ...
Jonathan Bignell
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