Teaching TV Sitcom
by James Baker
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This comprehensive, erudite and accessible guide provides a stimulating introduction to teaching this popular topic, with practical and helpful advice on classroom approaches and accessible reference to key critical and theoretical writing.
Contents include
- Introduction: Assessment contexts and schemes of work, Why teach sitcom?, How to use this guide, Scheme of works
- Background information: The origins of sitcom in the UK and US, Alternative comedies, Forms and conventions, Producers and audiences, Changes in the role of sitcom, Types of sitcom, Analysing sitcom
- Case studies: Sitcom families; sitcom and gender; sitcom and realism
About the author
James Baker is Head of Media Studies at Hurtwood House School in Surrey. He is also a senior examiner for an English awarding body and a freelance writer on media education.
Ordering information
- Catalogue no: BR052 £24.95
Buy online from the BFI Filmstore or phone Palgrave Macmillan Orders on 01256 302866.
Review
"excellent... an absorbing and eminently usable primer" - The Times.Additional resources
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- New: Sitcom
- 16+ study guide on TV Sitcom, produced by the BFI National Library.
- TV Sitcom on screenonline
- Find out more about TV Sitcom in the BFI's definitive guide to Britain's Film and TV history, screenonline. UK schools can register for free to view moving image material.
- The British Sense of Humour on screenonline
- Find out more about The British Sense of Humour in the BFI's definitive guide to Britain's Film and TV history, screenonline. UK schools can register for free to view moving image material.
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