The Sitcom

ISBN-13: 9781138850965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 262 str.

Jeremy G. Butler

Opis

In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Butler analyzes the sitcom's position as a major media artefact within American culture and will provide a historical overview of the genre as it has evolved in the US. Butler examines discourses of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation that are ever always at the core of humor in our culture and interprets how those discourses are embedded in television's relatively rigid narrative structures. The book is organized around the sub-genres through which the sitcom has cycled: for example, the rural sitcom, the workplace sitcom, the family sitcom, the "ethnic" sitcom, and so on, giving students and scholars alike a solid overview of TV comedy.

Spis treści

Introduction: Comedy Genre, Humor Theory [Modern Family]  1. Understanding the Sitcom  2. A Critical/Cultural History of the Sitcom [I Love Lucy]  3. Comedy, Family, and Small Towns [The Andy Griffith Show]  4. Comedy, Sex, and Gender Identity [Sex and the City]  5. Comedy, Race, Ethnicity, and Religion [Black-ish]  6. Comedy, Televisuality, and Convergence [The Simpsons]