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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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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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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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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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Do Sitcom Conversations Fully Depict Those in Natural Settings: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis
SAGE OpenAn 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.
Min Li, Yan Xiao
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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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The representation of women in the family in Spanish television fiction [PDF]
, 2016 The rise of television drama in the late nineties challenged comedy as the most popular and resilient genre of fiction. The diversity of themes and growing complexity of new narratives have relegated family representations –key to comedy’s success- to ...
Gómez Morales, Beatriz Maria +1 more
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
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The “Golden Girls”: A Sociological Analysis Of One Model Of Communal Living For The 21st Century [PDF]
, 2016 Does art imitate life? Is that an important explanation for why certain television shows have developed a following, even years after the show moved from prime time to syndication?
Ruggiero, Josephine A.
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