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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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The Indian family on UK reality television: Convivial culture in salient contexts [PDF]
, 2012 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below, copyright 2012 @ the author.This article demonstrates how The Family (2009), a fly-on-the wall UK reality series about a British Indian family ...
Calvert C. +13 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Sense of Humor Scale parallel version short form (SHS‐PSF) is a novel self‐report measure aimed at describing personality traits related to enjoyment of humor, laughter, verbal humor, humor under stress, humor in everyday life, and laughing at oneself.
Chloe Lau +6 more
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“Deve valer alguma coisa”: análise de Borges pelo método da engenharia reversa
Cadernos CajuínaO formato televisivo conhecido como sitcom tem sua estrutura determinada pela poética aristotélica, conforme comprovado por manuais de roteiro norte-americanos e estudos sobre obras estadunidenses.
Eduardo Peron, João Paulo Hergesel
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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Secuencias, 2016 Este trabajo ofrece un análisis comparativo de las características propias de la comedia palliata de Plauto (comediógrafo romano del siglo II a.C.) y de los elementos definitorios de la sitcom, género televisivo de gran aceptación popular.
Rosario López Gregoris +1 more
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LingBaWAdvancing the proposal that conversationalists frequently engage in humorous communication to convey propositional meanings, the paper aims to employ pragmatic inferential mechanisms specified in a relevance-theoretic framework in order to explicate the
Magdalena Wieczorek
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That \u2770s Show: A Realistic Depiction of Sexism [PDF]
, 2018 Overview: I have been a loyal viewer of the hit sitcom, That ‘70s Show, for years. In total, I have probably watched the entire series two or three times. However, it was not until recently that it struck me how sexist the show was.
Hartnett, Meleah
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PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVES OF VERBAL HUMOR IN THE BIG BANG THEORY [PDF]
, 2018 Keywords: Pragmatic, Illocutionary Acts, Maxim Flouting, Sitcom, HumorThis study aimed at finding out the types of illocutionary acts which creates humor effect in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory episode The Thespian Catalyst (S04E14).
FARRAH FAJRIANTI F
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“Would they not wish the feast might ever last?”: Strong Spice, Oral History and the Genesis of Globe to Globe [PDF]
, 2014 The 2012 Globe to Globe Festival proved a great success. Actors, directors, musicians, dancers, designers and technicians travelled from all over the world to perform on the Globe stage. Visitors to London’s Cultural Olympiad enjoyed six jam-packed weeks
Quarmby, Kevin A.
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