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1 online resource |
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data file rda |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Situation Comedy, Character and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath and Kim, in order to reveal the essential elements that must exist in a sitcom before even the first joke is written. Original in its approach, D.T. Klika uncovers major findings about the sitcom as well as human behavior and relationships that we find `arresting' and even "familial". By offering a new way of reading the sitcom using psychoanalytic theory, this book can be used as a basis for engaging in critical discourses as well as textual analysis of programs. Psychoanalytic theory enables a reading of character motivations and relationships, in turn elucidating the power struggle that exists between characters in this form of comedy. Situation Comedy, Character and Psychoanalysis shines a light on what is at play in the sitcom that makes us laugh, and why we love the characters we do, only to discover that this form of comedy is more complex than we first thought. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction: (re)reading the sitcom : What is the sitcom? -- The psychology of the character -- Using psychoanalysis -- An overview: finding sitcom's subversive side. It begins with the (key) character : Narcissism and the comic character -- The comic character's struggle -- Post-Freud and the comic -- The character trapped in the gaze -- Narcissus and Echo as comic characters -- The key character as master of their world?. The perpetual (power) struggle of sitcom relationships : Fear and behavior -- Fear and desire -- Fear and power -- The key character's struggle for a cohesive "self". Echoing the key character : The key character and their echo -- Echo comic characters -- Group shows: the echo that lies within -- A return to the myth of Narcissus and Echo and its psychoanalytic roots -- Echo and Narcissus: two sides of the psyche? The tension of the (closed) narrative : The key character and the narrative -- Tension through the "diegetic reality" of the narrative. Premise, performance, and the discursive frame : Tension in the premise -- The key character's "frame". Conclusion: sitcom: a (comic) site of struggle. Appendix: theory in practice : Putting it on the page : To (re)cap: questions from the chapters -- (Re)reading the sitcom -- (Re)developing the sitcom. |
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Situation comedies (Television programs) -- Psychological aspects.
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Television comedies -- History and criticism.
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Characters and characteristics on television.
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Psychology -- Popular works.
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Performing arts: comedy.
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Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
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Media studies.
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Television.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Genres -- Comedy.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- History & Criticism.
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Characters and characteristics on television. (OCoLC)fst01736467
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Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01081447
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Television comedies. (OCoLC)fst01146832
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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| Other Form: |
Print version: KLIKA, D.T. SITUATION COMEDY, CHARACTER AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. [Place of publication not identified] : BLOOMSBURY, 2017 1501327410 (OCoLC)973805686 |
| ISBN |
9781501327384 (electronic book) |
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1501327380 (electronic book) |
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