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Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis

By Klika, D. T.

Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis

By Klika, D. T.

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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 & 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2018-01-25
Publication Date:
2018-01-25
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501327410
ISBN13:
9781501327414
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
482 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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