CTCS 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: How I Met Your Mother, Physical Comedy, Television Studio

• School: USC
• Department: Cinema and Media Studies
• Course: CTCS 191
• Professor: Nitin Govil

Document Summary

Week 5: situating comedy: early tv studio history - relationship with hollywood, hard to tell the difference between film and television studio i. Drama is where the weighty, social issues are addressed. Often dismissed as light or escapist entertainment o. Works to challenge, legitimate, or reinforce dominant ideas in society o. Manufacture and engage in social issues (e. g. race, class, gender, sexuality) Through comedy, slide in social issues disguised by laughter. Emerges from radio comedy in both britain and the us. I love lucy, bewitched, dick van dyke show. Lives of a core group of characters (e. g. friends, how i met your mother, the office) home, work, sometimes intermediary space. A situation is established, disruption, resolution, closure and return to stabilized situation contemporary american comedy is more about mobility o o space placed genre. Take a lot longer to shoot, rehearse, plan o. Older shows are usually multi-camera shows but not always o.