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Friday 6 January 2017

TV Comedy: Audience Pleasures


The type of audience pleasures you need to write about in the exam include:
    • narrative pleasures such as those of narrative resolution, 
    • character identification, snowballing narrative, suspense, comedy, and so on
    • pleasures of recognition, familiarity and anticipation
    • pleasures of difference-within-repetition
    • performance unpredictability and spontaneity
    • transgressive pleasures
    • specific pleasures associated with performers or personalities.





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