scholarly journals AN ANTI-WAR PLAY OF THE MIDDLE OF THE XX CENTURY: PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION AND APPEAL TO DELL’ARTE PRACTICES, SITUATION COMEDY, CINEMA, DIDACTIC THEATER, THEATER OF CRUELTY (BASED ON ROBERTO ARLTA’S “IRON HOLIDAY”)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (46) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
O. Bondareva
Keyword(s):  
Situation Comedy ◽  
Didactic Theater ◽  
Theater Of Cruelty

“Don’t You See What’s Going on Here?” Seinfeld and Badiou on Situations and Events

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-509
Author(s):  
Rohan Kalyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Situation Comedy ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
American Television

Far from being merely “a show about nothing,” this article argues that the American television sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998) managed to develop a sophisticated theory of situations and events in modern life. The show explored a rich and humorous multiplicity of everyday situations and events that took its main characters and audience members alike to the very limits of their conventional lives. Yet Seinfeld consistently stopped short of raising larger political stakes in these explorations. In other words, Seinfeld never took its critique of everyday modern life to a structural level, that is, to the historical forces and social relations that shape contemporary situations and events. By bringing Seinfeld into an intellectual encounter with communist philosopher Alain Badiou’s work on situations and events, I argue that we can gain a deeper appreciation of both sides and rethink the political and aesthetic potential of situation comedy.

The family on television: Evaluation of gender roles in situation comedy

Sex Roles ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 409-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Olson ◽  
William Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Situation Comedy ◽  
The Family

Jesuit Theater and Drama

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Wetmore
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Educational Theater ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Didactic Theater

The historic Jesuit theater represents two centuries of didactic theater in which the Society of Jesus, following both the organizational instructions andSpiritual Exercisesof founder Ignatius of Loyola, used theater to inculcate virtue in both performer and audience member while teaching Latin, dance, poise, rhetoric, oratory, and confidence to the students who performed. Jesuit spirituality is inherently theatrical, and conversely Jesuit theater was intended to also be highly spiritual. The dramaturgy and scenography was spectacular and designed to draw audiences who would delight in them and learn the moral lessons the Jesuits hoped to teach while simultaneously drawing them away from a corrupt public theater. This essay considers Jesuit drama and theater in four key aspects: (1) Jesuit spirituality and performative practice; (2) the historic Jesuit educational theater of early modern Europe; (3) Jesuit drama in the missions outside of Europe; and (4) contemporary Jesuits involved in theater.

scholarly journals Menertawakan Kejelataan Kita2: Transgresi Batas-Batas Marginalitas dalam Sinetron Komedi Bajaj Bajuri

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Budi Irawanto
Keyword(s):  
Class Group ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Situation Comedy ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Television Programming

Abstract: Political transition in Indonesia since 1998 has created uncertain situation for most Indonesian people. Moreover, the hard economic condition has multiplied the number of people living below the poverty line. In these circumstances, the light entertainments such as situation comedy, which blends the portrait of ordinary people and their quaint life style, occupied the prime time of television programming in Indonesia. This paper discusses the popularity of the situation comedy Bajaj Bajuri (bajaj literally means “two-passenger pedicab motor with scooter machine”) in contemporary Indonesia. This series is about the daily life of Bajuri’s (bajaj’s driver) family and their lower class neighbours in the edge of metropolitan Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia). Therefore, this paper focuses on the representation of the marginalised people and how television constructed the boundary of marginality. This paper argues that situation comedy is not only reinforcing stereotype of the lower class group but also transgressing the stereotypical image of the lower class by parodying and abusing popular discourse.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Wilson Smith
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Theater Of Cruelty

The Conclusion begins with a consideration of parallels between two works written around 1900: Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (1955) and Strindberg’s A Dream Play (1901). These works, which were reactions to failure to unify natural science and psychology, correspond with the return to interpretation at the end of a nervous century. This neurologically informed turn to hermeneutics at century’s end ultimately sets the stage for Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty, a new and more virulent theater of sensation. Artaud’s insistence that all thought and feeling must be communicable and yet that words are fundamentally inadequate to this task leads inexorably to the conclusion that language must be concretized—must become pure corporeal sensation—and that this force of sensation must be as all-inclusive as thought itself is to the thinker..

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