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Cringe Histories: Harold Pinter and the Steptoes

Humanities, 2021
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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La definición de una narrativa propia. La comedia televisiva española (1990-2018)

Cuadernos.info, 2020
A principios de la década de los noventa, la ficción televisiva española inició una evolución sin precedentes. El objetivo de esta investigación es examinar, mediante un análisis de contenido, los rasgos definitorios del género que lideró dicha ...
Beatriz Gómez Morales
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Clasicismo e innovación en la producción nacional de comedia televisiva en España (2000-2010)

Comunicación, 2022
Nuevos programas humorísticos en Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido están revolucionando el género de la comedia televisiva actualmente. Algunas de estas tendencias anglosajonas están llegando a países europeos como España.
Patricia Diego, María del Mar Grandío   +1 more
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Stereotypical humour in the sitcom "Will and Grace"

Litera, 2023
Stereotypes have often been associated with negative outcomes such as discrimination, prejudice, and bias. Nonetheless, this study investigates the potential for humour within stereotypical discourse in a sitcom. Through an analysis of humorous language
Rizal Taufiq
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Dupla personalidade: a estrutura narrativa de Broad City na internet e na televisão

Rizoma, 2018
A ficção remete a certa oposição à realidade, em contrapartida, prescinde aspectos de verossimilhança para se fazer reconhecível. O quanto de distinção e semelhança as diferentes estruturas narrativas evocam é a questão central neste trabalho, que ...
Patrícia Azambuja, Vanessa Cutrim
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The “First Great Purge” of American Television Programming: Understanding How and Why Popular Television Changed So Dramatically from the 1950s to the 1960s

TV Series, 2022
Though “purge” may seem a rather dramatic choice of terms to refer to a drastic shift in the overall nature of network television programming in the United States, it has long been used by media scholars, notably in reference to “The Great Rural Purge of
Dennis Tredy
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Making Friends the British Way: Coupling (BBC, 2000-2004) and the Transatlantic Divide in Sitcom Humour

Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
This article examines the British sitcom Coupling (BBC, 2000-2004) as a case study in transatlantic comedic differences, particularly in relation to the American sitcom Friends (NBC, 1994-2004).
Sébastien Lefait
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Comedy, Repetition and Racial Stereotypes on Television

Cinergie, 2016
The article explores the affinity of comedy for repetition, analyzing particularly the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm (Creator: Larry David, HBO 2000-2011), a comedy series on the life of the co-creator and writer of Seinfeld, Larry David, who plays himself.
Michaela Wünsch
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Doce de série: as aventuras de dona Picucha

Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual, 2014
O trabalho propõe-se a analisar as especificidades do formato adotado pelo seriado Doce de mãe, em comparação com as normas que presidem o subgênero sitcom, em relação ao tema central e temáticas secundárias privilegiadas, ao seu processo de ...
Elizabeth Bastos Duarte
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Modeling the Paths from L2 Use and Socio‐Affective Variables to Communication Skills: A Mixed‐Methods Approach

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
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