The Sitcom

Brett Mills

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Paper, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3752-2
$22.50

November, 2009
Cloth, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3751-5
Edinburgh University Press
$65.00

The Sitcom explores the production, viewership, and script of this popular genre, drawing on a range of examples and case studies in order to map its characteristics, social significance, and guilty pleasures. Brett Mills takes a global approach, examining international examples as well as British and American broadcasts, isolating the relationships between sitcom, nation, and identity.

Related Subjects

• Film
• Television Studies

Series

• TV Genres (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

Brett Mills is a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of East Anglia.

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