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‘Quality’ and the Netflix Brand
This chapter analyses the links between concepts of ‘quality’ television and binge-watching by looking at the way binge-watching became a more common...
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No Soup For You!: Responsible and Irresponsible Holocaust Humor on American Sitcoms
Demsky examines American sitcom skits broadcasting Nazi/Holocaust humor. Spanning episodes from the 1990s into current times, he categorizes two...
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Star Leverage, Local Matters, and Transnational Media: Chris O’Dowd, Moone Boy and Puffin Rock
In this chapter Sligo actor Chris O’Dowd as a focalizing point with which to examine both post-Celtic Tiger Irish masculinity as well as...
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Genre Trouble: Netflix’s Lady Dynamite and Self-Help Television
The focus in this chapter is on Mitchell Hurwitz’s Netflix show, Lady Dynamite (2016–2017)—an audacious and challenging comedy, drawn from the real...
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Introduction
The introduction establishes the volume’s aims to examine a genre often maligned as the nadir of British film production and marginalised as a last...
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The Aesthetics of Television: Genre, Auteur, Canon
This introductory chapter outlines the long—(er) history of the television art-form—the problems that it has presented for serious scholarship; the...
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The British Sitcom Spinoff Film
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of theatrically-released spinoff films derived from British radio and...
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Introduction to the Second Edition: Netflix and the Streaming Wars
This Introduction to the Second Edition positions Netflix in the Streaming Wars. It points to the various ways Netflix has influenced the ways...
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The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres
Due to the increase in transgender characters in scripted television and film in the 2010s, trans visibility has been presented as a relatively new...
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“Welcome to Sparkhill, Birmingham”: Regionality and Race in Citizen Khan
When Citizen Khan was first broadcast on BBC One on 27 August 2012, at the less-than-popular timeslot of 10:30, it reignited a series of debates...
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Conclusion: The More Things Change…
The conclusion brings together the three debates of this book, tying them back to the overall themes of control and Netflix’ role in the processes of...
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Transmedia Comedy: BBC Three, Genre Distribution and Pls Like
This chapter looks at BBC Three sitcom Pls Like (2017–) and considers how its dissemination across multiple online platforms including YouTube...
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Am Ende Liebe?
Ausgehend von der These, dass Liebessemantiken auch durch die Medien geprägt sind, in denen von der Liebe erzählt wird, unternimmt der Text einen...
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Comedy, Television and the North East
This chapter has three main sections. The first identifies a canon of North-East comedy that shares a sensitivity to the language, culture and...
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Italian Americans on Television from the 1970s to the 1990s
Discussing the portrayal of Italian Americans on television between the 1970s and the 1990s, the author states that in the 1970s, despite some...
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‘Now say something in Welsh’: Gavin and Stacey in Translation
The comedy series Gavin and Stacey produced by Baby Cow Productions was first broadcast on BBC 3 in 2007. It quickly drew in large viewing figures...
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Introduction: UK and Irish Television Comedy—Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity
An important interpretative theme of this collection is the question of whose viewpoints these comedies represent. Charlie Chaplin supposedly said...
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Conclusion
The concluding chapter reiterates how the British sitcom spinoff film, from Band Waggon (1940) to People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan (2021), shows...
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Serialität als Medium des Alltags
Ausgehend vom Medium Film und einer philosophischen und medientheoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit den medialen Transformationen des Alltags wird...