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inart exam #2
comedy styles of televsion
Term | Meaning |
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dues ex machina | mechanism to return to the "status quo" |
internal situation | the different conflict dealt with each episode |
concrete mise en scene | believeable, lived in environment |
functional mise en scene | background, generic but serves no purpose |
comic surrealism | show ignores what is going on in the real world and creates its own world |
comedy contrast | takes incongruent things and puts them together for humor |
external situation | same conflict each episode |
classical unities | unity of time, space, and action |
closure | the end of a sit-com; conflict is resolved |
sub-text | deeper meanings of actions and dialogue |
internal action | the inevitable issues being faught by characters |
fragmentation | breaking things down into an episodic fashion; a great amount of plasticity |
artificiality | calling attention to the fact that it's not reality |
intertextuality | weaving in references from other media |
cultural capital | the knowledge expected of the audience |
self-reflected humor | reminds audience that what they're watching isn't real |