D. T. Klika

Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis (eBook, PDF)

On the Couch with Lucy, Basil, and Kimmie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501327384
• Artikelnr.: 50520406

Autorenporträt

D.T. Klika is Lecturer in TV and Film Production at Middlesex University, UK. Klika has had a thirty year fascination with the sitcom - from its theoretical underpinnings to its sociological appeal - that began with membership of the British Film Institute's seminal TV Sitcom group (1982). Klika has worked as a writer, producer, script advisor and written three sitcom pilots, one of which was nominated for the Australian Writers Guild Monte Miller Award another was recently nominated for the New York Screenplay Contest.