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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 “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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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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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
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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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Television and the popular: viewing from the British perspective [PDF]
, 2010 The academic discipline of television studies has been constituted by the claim that television is worth studying because it is popular. Yet this claim has also entailed a need to defend the subject against the triviality that is associated with the ...
Bignell, Jonathan
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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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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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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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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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