Author: David McGimpsey
Publisher: Coach House Press
Keywords: sitcom
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2007-09-28
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1552451887
ISBN-13: 9781552451885

Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey’s "Sitcom" is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. Mischievous, generous, and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself - through antic turns and lyric flips to demimondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of "Hawaii Five-O" - to a sincere contemplation of mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. Unembarrassed by its literary allusions or its hi-lo hybridity, "Sitcom’s" strategic

Author: Brett Mills
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: genres, sitcom
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0748637524
ISBN-13: 9780748637522

The Sitcom explores the production, viewership, and script of this popular genre, drawing on a range of examples and case studies in order to map its characteristics, social significance, and guilty pleasures. Brett Mills takes a global approach, examining international examples as well as British and American broadcasts, isolating the relationships between sitcom, nation, and identity.

Author: Joanne Morreale
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: series, television, reader, sitcom, critiquing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815629834
ISBN-13: 9780815629832

Choice essays on the TV sitcom lend insights into shifting cultural modes and methods for television criticism.

Authors:Phil Ramuno, Henry Winkler, Mary Lou Belli,
Publisher: Back Stage Books
Keywords: handbook, sitcom
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0823028747
ISBN-13: 9780823028740

From two veteran television directors, here is a comprehensive career handbook to the most popular form of comedy in the world: the television sitcom. Revealed are the rules, the language, and the traditions of this popular art form and how the pacing, jokes, and dialogue in a sitcom differ from those in film and theater. The authors walk readers through a typical, five-day sitcom schedule and offer a colorful, first-person account of what it feels like to be on the set. Most importantly, they offer insider information on how to launch a career in this exciting industry. Included are profiles

Authors:Mary M. Dalton, Laura R. Linder,
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: skewed, viewed, america, reader, sitcom
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $86.50
ISBN-10: 0791465691
ISBN-13: 9780791465691

Offers a variety of perspectives on the sitcom genre and its influence on American culture.

Authors:Mary M. Dalton, Laura R. Linder,
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: skewed, viewed, america, reader, sitcom
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0791465705
ISBN-13: 9780791465707

Offers a variety of perspectives on the sitcom genre and its influence on American culture.

Author: Paulo Quaglio
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: studies, corpus, linguistics, conversation, natural, dialogue, sitcom, friends, television
Number of Pages: 161
Published: 2009-02-04
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 9027223106
ISBN-13: 9789027223104