MASK AND PERSONA: CREATING THE BARD FOR BARDCOM
Persona Studies, 2020 This article explores a number of perspectives on the creation of very different Shakespeares as personas by first examining the celebration of the 400th anniversary of his death in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 2016 and Shake, Mr Shakespeare, a ...
Peter Holland
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What do you see and what do you recall?: Using eye tracking to understand product placement
Cogent Business & Management, 2022 Since 1982, when one of the most successful product placements appeared in the movie ET, marketers have continued adopting this strategy in various media channels.
Jittima Kongmanon, Phallapa Petison
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Discourse Markers Used in Short Series Movie ‘Friends' and Its Relation with English Language Teaching [PDF]
, 2016 Language is primarily speech. This paper discusses discourse markers. They are used for various purposes like to create a smooth flow of thoughts and to make the interlocutors easily understand.
Sada, C. (Clarry) +2 more
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Adrift or ashore? Desert Island Discs and celebrity culture [PDF]
, 2017 Why do we want to imagine celebrities as adrift, as banished from the rest of the world, and yet, at the same time, to find out more about them? The idea of celebrities as 'intimate strangers', with the media providing us with privileged access to the ...
Littler, J.
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Series. International journal of tv serial narrativesThis paper approaches fictional telecinematic discourse from a perspective of inter-character negative evaluation in a specific context. The paper adapts a categorisation for interpersonal negative judgements and uses it to analyse instances of negative ...
Jukke Kaaronen
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“Beef Jerky in a Ball Gown”: The Camp Excesses of Titus Andromedon in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Open Cultural Studies, 2017 In this essay, we look at Titus Andromedon from the Netflix-sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2014-) as a singular phenomenon in contemporary TV: a black queen whose use of camp distances him from stereotypes, but connects him with audiences.
Dexl Carmen, Horn Katrin
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“I Was Just Doing a Little Joke There”: Irony and the Paradoxes of the Sitcom in The Office [PDF]
, 2012 A rhetorical analysis the use of irony in the American sitcom "The Office.
Eric Detweiler
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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 290-299, December 2025.ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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Good, bad or just good enough: representations of motherhood and the maternal role on the small screen [PDF]
, 2017 This article seeks to introduce the contemporary maternal experience and the ‘good’ mother myth as it exists within the media landscape before considering the ways in which the situation comedy in general and the new American comedy, Mom (2013– ) in ...
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