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TV Sitcom

TV Sitcom. Audience Pleasures..... Revision (see Notes on slides for responses). Your mission is to: a) research b) plan c) write an exam question paragraph explaining your assigned topic about situation comedies don’t forget to PEE/PEAT. Sample questions – 12 marks.

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TV Sitcom

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  1. TV Sitcom Audience Pleasures..... Revision (see Notes on slides for responses)

  2. Your mission is to:a) researchb) planc) writean exam question paragraph explaining your assigned topic about situation comediesdon’t forget to PEE/PEAT

  3. Sample questions – 12 marks • Explain two audience pleasures of situation comedy and show in detail how at least two different programmes offer these pleasures. • Explain how two situation comedies you have studied differ in their appeal to audiences. • Explain two audience pleasures of situation comedy and show how at least two different programmes offer these pleasures.

  4. Your topic is......

  5. predictability: easy decoding of a conventional genre

  6. interest of a new inflection of a conventional genre

  7. interest of a new inflection of a conventional genre (extra)

  8. warm and inclusive mode of address

  9. identification with characters or situation

  10. ritual pleasure of consuming the familiar eg: catchphrases, comedy and running jokes

  11. pleasure of narrative resolution

  12. representation of social or personal issues

  13. accessible themes:eg work life, families, friends

  14. audience can feel superior to some characters

  15. escapism

  16. breaking taboos

  17. escapism & break taboos (extra)

  18. bringing in stars

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