The Great TV Sitcom Book

1988 Situation comedies (Television programs)

Author : Rick Mitz
Release : 1988
Genre : Situation comedies (Television programs)
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Book Synopsis The Great TV Sitcom Book by : Rick Mitz

Download or read book The Great TV Sitcom Book written by Rick Mitz. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with a wit and intelligence that captures each show's inimitable style and humor, this book offers everything fans want to know about TV sitcoms, all plentifully illustrated with black-and-white photographs.

Writing Television Sitcoms (revised)

2009-12-01 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Evan S. Smith
Release : 2009-12-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Writing Television Sitcoms (revised) written by Evan S. Smith. This book was released on 2009-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Writing Television Sitcoms features the essential information every would-be teleplay writer needs to know to break into the business, including: - Updated examples from contemporary shows such as 30 Rock, The Office and South Park - Shifts in how modern stories are structured - How to recognize changes in taste and censorship - The reality of reality television - How the Internet has created series development opportunities - A refined strategy for approaching agents and managers - How pitches and e-queries work - or don't - The importance of screenwriting competitions

Television Sitcom

2005-11-17 Performing Arts

Author : Brett Mills
Release : 2005-11-17
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Television Sitcom written by Brett Mills. This book was released on 2005-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its global reach, longstanding popularity, and immense profitability, sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on television and media. This book demonstrates that this lack needs to be sorely addressed, by dragging analysis of sitcom up to date, with a wealth of contemporary examples, a range of new approaches to the genre, and examination of the roles sitcom and comedy play within society. The book takes as its starting point the variety of ways in which sitcom has traditionally been explored. A chapter on genre examines the history and development of sitcom, and the institutional structures which produce it. There is also analysis of differences between sitcoms produced in a range of countries, and what happens when a programme gets sold abroad and remade. A chapter on representation explores the debates about the ways in which sitcom chooses who to make jokes about and why, and whether this matters. And a chapter on performance argues that this is a vital, and underexplored, aspect of sitcom's funniness, and interrogates the ways in which comic actors make their performance funny. With specific case studies on Will and Grace, The Office, and The Cosby Show, as well as analysis of a broad range of contemporary and historical examples throughout, this book will be of interest to students of sitcom and comedy, as well as those of television and popular culture.

The Sitcom

2019-10-09 Performing Arts

Author : Jeremy G. Butler
Release : 2019-10-09
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book The Sitcom written by Jeremy G. Butler. This book was released on 2019-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre’s position as a major media artefact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the USA. Everyone loves the sitcom genre; and yet, paradoxically, everyone hates the sitcom, too. This book examines themes of gender, race, ethnicity, and the family that are always at the core of humor in our culture, tracking how those discourses are embedded in the sitcom’s relatively rigid storytelling structures. Butler pays particular attention to the sitcom’s position in today’s post-network media landscape and sample analyses of Sex and the City, Black-ish, The Simpsons, and The Andy Griffith Show illuminate how the sitcom is infused with foundational American values. At once contemporary and reflective, The Sitcom is a must-read for students and scholars of television, comedy, and broader media studies, and a great classroom text.

Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain

2010-06-15 Performing Arts

Author : David Lavery
Release : 2010-06-15
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 903/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain written by David Lavery. This book was released on 2010-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a slow and inauspicious beginning, Seinfeld broke through to become one of the most commercially successful sitcoms in the history of television. This fascinating book includes classic articles on the show by Geoffrey O'Brien and Bill Wyman (first published in the New York Review of Books and Salon.com respectively), and a selection of new and revised essays by some of the top television scholars in the US - looking at issues as wide-ranging as Seinfeld's Jewishness, alleged nihilism, food obsession, and long-running syndication. The book also includes a comprehensive episode guide, and Betty Lee's lexicon of Seinfeld language.

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