Essays about: "sitcom"
Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 essays containing the word sitcom.
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11. The television series Community and Sitcom : A case study aimed at the genre of contemporary American Sitcom television series
University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : This thesis is asking whether the television series Community (2009-) can be defined as a Sitcom, combined with a look at how other genres that generally are considered to be non-comic are incorporated in the series and how those are identifiable as well as whether or not they compromise Community’s possible label as a Sitcom. In seeking to define this show’s place in its own genre I found that whilst Community does not follow the archetypal technical conventions of Sitcom, it still does follow some of its setups, tropes and ideas. READ MORE
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12. Social Class in the Simpsons
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Since the media’s representation of language and social class can maintain and reinforce attitudes and values in society, the purpose of this essay is to describe how social class is depicted in selected episodes of The Simpsons, which is the longest-running sitcom in television history. By using ad hoc analysis on judgment samples of transcripts of two episodes of The Simpsons, this essay may claim to be an empirical, qualitative essay with a hermeneutical approach. READ MORE
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13. Anglicisms in the French Language : A comparative study of English loanwords in French from France and Quebec
University essay from Institutionen för humanioraAbstract : The aim of this study was to find out if there are differences in the use of Anglicisms in the French language from Quebec and from France. This was done with the help of a well-known sitcom named Un gars, une fille. The Quebecers and the French have adopted their own version of this sitcom to their cultures. READ MORE
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14. Social gender norms in body language : The construction of stereotyped gender differences in body language in the American sitcom Friends
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : Nonverbal communication such as body language is a vital component of our communication, and since scholars agree that there are some notable differences in the way men and women use body language, the study of gendered nonverbal communication as a social construction is vital to our understanding of how we create gendered identities. The aim of this paper is to investigate how social gender norms concerning body language appear in constructed communication. READ MORE