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Call No: FRONT DESK
CorpAuthor: Australian Film Television & Radio School. Jerzy Toeplitz Library.
PubDate: 1993
Subject: COMEDIES; SITUATION COMEDY

Call No: 224:732 FER
Author: Ferguson, Tim
Source: AU
Place: Strawberry Hills, NSW
Publisher: Currency Press
PubDate: 2010
PhysDes: 217 pages ; 23 cm
Subject: CHARACTERS ON TV; COMEDY PROGRAMMES; COMEDY TV. AUSTRALIA; HUMOUR ON TV; SCRIPTS; SCRIPTWRITING; SCRIPTWRITING. AUSTRALIA; SCRIPTWRITING FOR TV; SITUATION COMEDY; FERGUSON, TIM
Summary: "From one of Australia's most successful comedians comes 'The Cheeky Monkey', a practitioner's guide to the art of comedy writing. Both insightful and practical, 'The Cheeky Monkey' explains the principles of sitcom writing and guides the reader in how to apply them. Seeded with exercises to aid the developing comedy writer, this book will help you to: write jokes; create funny stories; build comic characters; develop a sitcom; sell your sitcom to producers and TV networks. It's comedy writing made simple. Well, simpler. Many of Tim Ferguson's techniques can also be applied to film, stage, stand-up or indeed any form of comedy. You'll make 'em laugh before you know it." - BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes writing exercises with sample answers included in the appendix
ISBN: 9780868198613
Contents: -- introduction: the purpose and function of humour -- gag principles -- gag categories -- designing a sitcom -- designing ongoing characters -- creating an episode -- humour and story -- selling a sitcom -- conclusion -- appendix --

Call No: 732(73) GRO
Author: Grote, David
Place: Hamden, Conn.
Publisher: Archon Books
PubDate: 1983
PhysDes: 206 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: SITUATION COMEDY
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 185-188
ISBN: 020801991X
LON: 2338790

Call No: 512.1 PAR
Author: Partridge, Dinah; Hughes, Peter, 1949
Edition: 2nd ed
Source: AT
Place: Melbourne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1998
PhysDes: viii, 248 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm
Subject: TEACHING MATERIALS; PRINCESS BRIDE, THE (US, Rob Reiner, 1987); ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996); BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941); CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS; CLUELESS (US, Amy Heckerling, 1995); COOLBAROO CLUB, THE (AT, Roger Scholes, 1996); [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964); EMMA (UK, Douglas McGrath, 1996); FRONTLINE [TV] (AT, 1994- ); GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981); GENRES; HANDMAID'S TALE, THE (US/GW, Volker Schlondorff, 1990); HEARTS OF DARKNESS : A FILMMAKERS APOCALYPSE (US, Fax Bahr & George Hinkenlooper, 1991); HOUSEKEEPING (US, Bill Forsyth, 1987); MITT LIV SOM HUND (SW, Lass Hallestrom, 1985); MURIEL'S WEDDING (AT, P.J. Hogan, 1994); NARRATIVE IN FILMS; NOT FOURTEEN AGAIN (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1996); ONCE WERE WARRIORS (NZ, Lee Tamahori, 1994); POLICE ON TV; PROOF (AT, Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991); REALISM IN FILMS; SCHINDLER'S LIST (US, Steven Spielberg, 1993); SECRET GARDEN, THE (US, Agnieszka Holland, 1993); SEINFELD [TV] (US, 1990-98); SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (US, Ang Lee, 1995); SHAME (AT, Steve Jodrell, 1988); SHINE (AT/UK, Scott Hicks, 1996); SITUATION COMEDY; STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977); WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (US, Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
Notes: Bibliography
ISBN: 0195506774 : $26.95; 0195506774 (pbk.)
LON: 13455821
ID2: 290

Call No: 632.46 MEL
Author: Mellencamp, Patricia
Place: Bloomington
Publisher: Indiana University Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: xvi, 414 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Series: Arts and politics of the everyday
Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; IMPERIALISM AND TV; COMMERCIALS, TV; GOVERNMENT CONTROL. USA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TV; DISASTERS ON TV; LAWSUITS; NARRATIVE IN TV; SEX AND TV; SITUATION COMEDY; GULF WAR ON TV; WOMEN ON TV; TALK SHOWS. USA; RIVERA, GERALDO; DURAS, MARGUERITE; BALL, LUCILLE; BENSON, SUSAN PORTER; RIVERS, JOAN; ARNOLD, ROSEANNE; BURNS, GEORGE; DONAHUE, PHIL; FAGIN, STEVE; WAGNER, JANE; EVIL ANGELS (AT, Fred Schepisi, 1988); GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1950-1958?); ETERNAL FRAME [MM] (US, 1975?); OPRAH WINFREY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1986- ); ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ); TWIN PEAKS [TV] (US, David Lynch & others, 1990-1991); YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, THE [TV] (US, 1973- ); MURDER, SHE WROTE [TV] (US, 1984- ); MAJOR DAD [TV] (US, 1989- ); I LOVE LUCY [TV] (US, 1951-57); CURRENT AFFAIR, A [TV] (US, 1986- )
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-408) and index
ISBN: 0253207355 (pbk.); 0253337445 (alk. paper)
LON: 8666545

Call No: 512 STE
Author: Stewart, Colin; Lavelle, Marc; Kowaltzke, Adam
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: x, 465 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Subject: MEDIA; AUDIENCES; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; VIOLENCE ON TV; MULTIMEDIA; COMPUTER GAMES; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; ADAPTATIONS; SOAP OPERAS; SITUATION COMEDY; CRIME DRAMAS; ADVERTISING; TALK SHOWS
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0851708439 (pbk)

Call No: 412 SKA
Author: Sklar, Robert
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1980
PhysDes: xi, 200 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Subject: SITUATION COMEDY; CRITICISM; VIOLENCE ON TV; COMMERCIALS, TV; ETHNIC GROUPS AND TV; SOCIETY ON TV; CLASS ON TV; SEX ON TV; CHILDREN'S TELEVISION WORKSHOP; SANDRICH, JAY; LOU GRANT [TV] (US, 1977-82); SCARLETT LETTER, THE [TV] (US, Rick Hauser, 1979); REAL PEOPLE [TV] (US, 1979); FRIENDLY FIRE [ABC THEATRE: FRIENDLY FIRE] [TV] (US, 1979); ROOTS: THE NEXT GENERATION [TV] (David Wolper, 1979); MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1970-77?)
ISBN: 0195027655 : $15.95
LON: 1677348

Call No: 722-02 PRI
Author: Spigel, Lynn; Mann, Denise
Place: Minneapolis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: xiii, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series: Camera obscura book
Subject: WOMEN AND TV; WOMEN, PROGRAMMES FOR; CONSUMERS AND TV; SITUATION COMEDY; POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO; MELODRAMA; SOAP OPERAS; ETHNIC GROUPS ON TV; FAMILY ON TV; MARRIAGE ON TV; STARS; ETHNIC GROUPS ON TV; CLASS AND TV; FEMINISM AND TV; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA; HOMOSEXUALITY ON TV; GENDER AND TV; GLESS, SHARON; FOSTER, MEG; DALY, TYNE; CARROLL, DIAHANN; KANTNER, HAL; RAYE, MARTHA; MARTHA RAYE SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 195?-55); JULIA [TV] (US, 1968-71); CAGNEY AND LACY [TV] (US, 1982-88); KATE AND ALLIE [TV] (US, 1984-88); GENERAL HOSPITAL [TV] (US, 1963-); GOLDBERGS, THE [TV] (1949-55?); LEAVE IT TO BEAVER [TV] (US, 1957-63); FATHER KNOWS BEST [TV] (US, 1954-60); ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET, THE [TV] (US, 1952-66)
Notes: An expanded version of issue no. 16, winter 1988, of Camera obscura; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0816620520 (hc : acid-free paper); 0816620539 (pb : acid-free paper)
LON: 91040919; 8544849

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SITUATION COMEDY

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: SITUATION COMEDY AUSTRALIA

Call No: 632.2 THO
Author: Thompson, Kristin
Edition: 1st ed.
Source: USA
Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publisher: Harvard University Press
PubDate: 2003
PhysDes: 172 p ; 20cm + b&w ill.
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; ADVERTISING; CHARACTERS ON TV; DRAMAS; INTERNET; SCRIPTWRITING; SYMBOLISM ON TV; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; NARRATIVE IN TV; SEQUELS; SERIALS; SITUATION COMEDY; SOAP OPERAS; MERCHANDISING; BORDWELL, DAVID; CLEESE, JOHN; FROST MARK; KAEL, PAULINE; LYNCH, DAVID; NEWCOMB, HORACE; WILLIAMS, RAYMOND; WODEHOUSE, P.G; AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69); BAD GIRLS [TV] (UK, 1999-); BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986); BOB NEWHART SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1961-62); BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV] (US, 1997-2004); HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87); MURPHY BROWN [TV] (US, 1988-); ROYLE FAMILY, THE [TV] (UK, 1998-2000); SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986); SOPRANOS, THE [TV] (US, 1999); STAR WARS (US, George Lucas, 1977); YES MINISTER [TV] (UK, 1980-84)
Summary: Author Kristin Thompson analyses the narrative workings of television and film, looking at the narrative techniques the two media share. Thomson then focuses on the specific challenges that series television presents and the tactics writers have devised to meet them – tactics that sustain interest and maintain sense across multiple plots and subplots and in spite of frequent interruptions as well as weeklong and seasonal breaks. [Taken from back cover].
ISBN: 0674010876

Call No: 53 BAZ
Author: Bazalgette, Cary; Cook, Jim; Medhurst, Andy
Place: London
Publisher: BFI Education
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: ii, 98 p. ; 30 cm. + 10 strips of transparences
Subject: SITUATION COMEDY; TELEVISION. UK; TEACHING MATERIALS; WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS? [TV] (UK, 1973-74); PORRIDGE [TV] (UK, 1973-77); HI-DE-HI [TV] (UK, 1980-88); YOUNG ONES, THE [TV] (UK, 1982-84); GEORGE AND MILDRED [TV] (UK, 1976-79); RISING DAMP [TV] (UK, 1974-78); SHELLEY [TV] (UK, 1979-1992); AGONY [TV] (UK, 1979-81)

Call No: 70 WIN
Author: Winship, Michael
Edition: 1st American ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Random House
PubDate: c1988
PhysDes: xx, 371 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Subject: HISTORY OF TV; SITUATION COMEDY; DRAMAS; DOCUMENTARY DRAMAS; TALK SHOWS; GAMES SHOWS; NEWS PROGRAMMES; SPORT ON TV; POTTER, DENNIS; M*A*S*H [TV] (US, 1972-83); HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87); L.A. LAW [TV] (US, 1986-94); MIAMI VICE [TV] (US, 1984-90); MOONLIGHTING [TV] (US, 1985-89)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0394564014 : $19.95
LON: 5434382 5434382

Call No: 720 TEL
Author: Creeber, Glen; Miller, Toby; Tulloch, John
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2001
PhysDes: xi, 163 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm
Subject: PROGRAMME GENRES; DRAMAS; SOAP OPERAS; CHILDREN, PROGRAMMES FOR; NEWS PROGRAMMES; DOCUMENTARIES; ADAPTATIONS. AUSTEN, JANE; SOAP OPERAS; SITUATION COMEDY; HOMOSEXUALITY ON TV; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV] (US, 1997-2004); SIMPSONS, THE [TV] (US, 1989-); SOUTH PARK [TV] (US, 1997-); I LOVE LUCY [TV] (US, 1951-57); ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ); ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS [TV] (UK, 1992 - 1996); WILL & GRACE[TV] (US, 1998-); MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS [TV] (UK, 1969-1974); DALLAS [TV] (US, 1978-91); COUNTRY PRACTICE, A [TV] (AT, 1981-1993, 1994); TWIN PEAKS [TV] (US, David Lynch & others, 1990-1991); ALLY MCBEAL [TV] (US, 1997-); AVENGERS, THE [TV] (UK, 1961-69); HILL STREET BLUES [TV] (US, 1980-87); E.R. [TV] (US, 1994 - ); STAR TREK [TV] [...] (US, 1966-69, 1987-); X-FILES, THE [TV] (US, 1993-); CATHY COME HOME (UK, Ken Loach, 1966); DAY AFTER, THE (US, Nicholas Meyer, 1983); ROOTS [TV] (US, 1977); SINGING DETECTIVE, THE [TV] (UK, Jon Amiel, 1986)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0851708498(pbk.)

Call No: 732.2 MIL
Author: Brett Mills
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
Subject: SITUATION COMEDY; GENRES; KATH AND KIM [TV] (AT, 2002-); COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92); OFFICE, THE [TV] (UK, 2001); WILL AND GRACE
Summary: Despite its global reach, longstanding popularity, and immense profitability, sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on television and media. This book demonstrates that this lack sorely needs to be addressed by dragging analysis of sitcom up to date, with a wealth of contemporary examples, a range of new approaches to the genre, and examination of the roles sitcom and comedy play within society…With specific case studies on Will and Grace, The Office and The Cosby Show, as well as analysis of a broad range of contemporary and historical examples throughout, this book will be of interest to students of sitcom and comedy, as well as those of television and popular culture. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 1844570886

Call No: 224 ARO
Author: Aronson, Linda, 1950
CorpAuthor: Australian Film, Television and Radio School
Place: North Ryde, N.S.W.
Publisher: Australian Film, Television and Radio School
PubDate: 2000
PhysDes: iv, 71 p. : ports. ; 25 cm
Subject: AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION; SCRIPTWRITING; SITUATION COMEDY; SIMPSON, ROGER; EDWARDS, JOHN; MASTERS, SUE; DEVENISH, LUKE; SEACHANGE [TV] (AT, 1998-); BREAKERS [TV] (AT, 1998-); BLUE HEELERS [TV] (AT, 1994-2006)
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography
ISBN: 1876351101 : $12.95; 1876351101; 1876351101
LON: 21527934

Call No: 62 NEW
Author: Newcomb, Horace
Source: US
Place: Garden City, New York
Publisher: Anchor Press
PubDate: 1974
PhysDes: 272 p. ; 18 cm
Subject: SITUATION COMEDY; WESTERNS, TV; THRILLERS, TV; CRIME ON TV; ADVENTURE, TV; SOAP OPERAS. USA; NEWS PROGRAMMES.USA; SPORT ON TV; AESTHETICS
Summary: A study of television as a popular artform and as a mass entertainment device.
ISBN: 0385036027
Contents: 1. The responses to television -- 2. Situation and domestic comedies: problems, families, and fathers -- 3. Westerns: the television version -- 4. Mysteries: order and authorit -- 5. Doctors and lawyers: counselors and confessors -- 6. Adventure shows: loners, fugitives, and explorers -- 7. Soap opera: approaching the real world -- 8. News, sports, documentary: reality as entertainment -- 9. The new shows -- 10. Toward a television aesthetic

Call No: 451-025 ROW
Author: Rowe, Kathleen, 1947
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin, Tex.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Texas film studies series
Subject: COMEDIENNES; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; COMEDIES; TRANSVESTISM; MELODRAMA; SITUATION COMEDY; CARNIVAL AND THE CINEMA; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; ARNOLD, ROSEANNE; MISS PIGGY; WEST, MAE; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); BALL OF FIRE (US, Howard Hawks, 1942); BORN YESTERDAY (US, George Cukor, 1950); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); MOONSTRUCK (US, Norman Jewison, 1987); PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990); SHE DONE HIM WRONG (US, Lowell Sherman, 1933); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); SYLVIA SCARLETT (US, George Cukor, 1935); GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953)
Summary: Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman - often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top" - uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women - the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas; This feminist study of comedy in film and television offers exciting new opportunities for understanding these media. Written with verve and humor, it will be important reading for a wide popular and scholarly audience in mass communications, gender studies, and popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index
ISBN: 0292790724; 0292770693 (pbk.)
LON: 94013656; 10900401