Alissa Chater offers a three-part analysis of Netflix original animated television show, Bojack Horseman. In her analysis Chater discusses the ways in which the show is in dialogue with the sitcom genres it parodies as she compares the world of Bojack Horseman to the show-within-a-show, Horsin’ Around, the sitcom the titular character starred in some twenty years previous. Chater explores the w...

Television series carry the structural traces of society in which they are produced. The social, cultural and ideological values revealed to audience through characters portrayed on screen. TV discussed study examined as an indicator social life. sitcom named "Jet Sosyete", written by Gülse Birsel, is important production based utilitarian characters. This sitcom, reflects attitude relations ch...

We show that entertainment-education reduces prejudice and does so more effectively than several established prejudice reduction methods. In Experiment 1, participants exposed to an educational television sitcom with diverse, yet relatable Arab/Muslim characters had lower scores on implicit and explicit measures of prejudice than participants exposed to a control sitcom featuring an all White c...

This study aims to analyze the Semantic Mechanism of Humor in IT Crowd sitcom, and also find out deviations linguistic elements contained humor. In this study, sources data were humorous dialogues sitcom using descriptive methods. The results show that found all conversations including lexical ambiguity (LA), causal fallacy (CF), presupposition (Pr), locutionary (Lc), topic progression (TP). ad...

In this paper we describe a fully implemented prototype for interactive storytelling using the UnrealTM engine. We describe the important mechanisms involved in the variability of plot instantiations, within a scenario of sitcom genre. We also provide an evaluation of the concepts of how the dynamic interactions between agents and/or the user influence the generation of story, with first result...

In this paper we describe a fully implemented prototype for interactive storytelling using the UnrealTM engine. We describe the important mechanisms involved in the variability of plot instantiations, within a scenario of sitcom genre. We also provide an evaluation of the concepts of how the dynamic interactions between agents and/or the user influence the generation of story, with first result...

Existing studies on comedies in Nigeria have focused mainly stand-up comedy, with little attention devoted to situation comedies. This study, therefore, investigates the pragmatic acts that are used reflect inherent societal issues revealed under guise of humour a Nigerian sitcom, Jenifa’s Diary. Drawing excerpts purposively sampled from first three seasons sitcom and subjecting them analytical...

In this paper we describe a fully implemented prototype for interactive storytelling using the UnrealTM engine. We describe the important mechanisms involved in the variability of plot instantiations, within a scenario of sitcom genre. We also provide an evaluation of the concepts of how the dynamic interactions between agents and/or the user influence the generation of story, with first result...