BUI301F2022/TV Comedy: Multicamera
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Format
- Catchphrase.
- Laughtrack.
- Commercial breaks.
- Recurring narrative problematic
- 30-minutes long
Mode of production
- Shot on film, not live
- Syndication quality
- Appears to be live, with a laughtrack
Dominant ideology (Zeitgeist)
- Characters expressing opposing views
- Polysemy = many meanings
Seinfeld's innovations
- Director Tom Cherones
- Let's recreate this scene as a series of still photographs.
- Below are stills from the recreated set, used in an episode of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm and a set miniature by Charles Brogdon.
Seinfeld scene reenactment
- Cast
- Logan as Jerry
- Ava as George
- Marguerite as Elaine
Texts & resources
- Jeremy G. Butler, The Sitcom (New York: Routledge, 2020).
- Seinfeld scene breakdown materials