Awkwardness sells, but who’s buying? How students navigate awkward TV comedy series

IF 0.9 2区 艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2023-10-28 DOI:10.1177/17496020231211485
Iván Kirschbaum, Pauwke Berkers
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Drawing on in-depth interviews, this study examines how students engage with awkwardness in television comedies. The article contributes to studies of awkwardness, its configuration in popular culture, and audiences’ response to awkward-comic texts. Our findings show typical sequences and resources for producing awkward scenes. Participants tend to evaluate awkward scenes in terms of ‘realism’, i.e., whether they could relate the scene to their personal lives and/or imagine themselves in that situation. Furthermore, awkward sequences and feelings of awkwardness from the characters increases the evaluation of scenes as realistic. Finally, in line with Kotsko’s (2010) characterisation of awkwardness as a social feeling, awkwardness spreads from the television screen when participants perceive if the character is feeling awkward or imagine themselves feeling awkward in that situation.
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尴尬卖,但谁买?学生如何驾驭尴尬的电视喜剧
通过深入访谈,本研究考察了学生如何处理电视喜剧中的尴尬场面。这篇文章有助于研究尴尬,它在流行文化中的配置,以及观众对尴尬喜剧文本的反应。我们的研究结果显示了产生尴尬场景的典型序列和资源。参与者倾向于根据“现实主义”来评估尴尬的场景,也就是说,他们是否能将场景与他们的个人生活联系起来,或者想象自己处于那种情况。此外,尴尬的场景和角色的尴尬感增加了对场景真实性的评价。最后,与Kotsko(2010)将尴尬描述为一种社会感觉的特征一致,当参与者感知到角色是否感到尴尬或想象自己在那种情况下感到尴尬时,尴尬就会从电视屏幕传播开来。
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Critical Studies in Television
Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-
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期刊介绍: Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.
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