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Good, bad or just good enough: representations of motherhood and the maternal role on the small screen [PDF]
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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Denotation – Humour – Taboo This analysis takes as its subject jokes about Poles that appeared in two US-American sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory (Teoria wielkiego podrywu) and 2 Broke Girls (Dwie spłukane dziewczyny), as well as their official Polish TV ...
Kwiryna Proczkowska
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MASK AND PERSONA: CREATING THE BARD FOR BARDCOM
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
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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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore
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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This 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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Desde que se produjo la apertura televisiva en los años noventa en España, el desarrollo de géneros, formatos y narrativas alrededor de la producción de ficción ha evolucionado de forma notoria, dando lugar a todo un escenario de formas y narraciones ...
Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí
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Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Captioned Viewing: A Meta‐Analysis
Abstract Second language (L2) viewing with captions (i.e., L2 on‐screen text) is now a proliferating as well as promising area of L2 acquisition research. The goal of the present meta‐analysis was to examine (a) the relationship between captioned viewing and incidental vocabulary learning and (b) what variables related to learners, treatment ...
Satsuki Kurokawa +2 more
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Violation Maxims in Awas Ada Sule Situation Comedy [PDF]
The objectives of this research were to discover the types of violation maxims, the most dominant violation maxim, and to explain the causes of the most dominant violation maxim in Awas Ada Sule situation comedy.
Pulungan, A. H. (Anni) +1 more
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“Beef Jerky in a Ball Gown”: The Camp Excesses of Titus Andromedon in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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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