I am pleased to announce that my book, 'Situation Comedy, Character and Psychoanalysis: On the Couch with Lucy, Basil and Kimmie', published by Bloomsbury Academic is now out in paperback (and much cheaper). Below is a blurb on the book that includes pedagogical exercises including suggested essay topics and script development of this notoriously difficult form to write.
Here is the link to Bloomsbury website:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/search?q=klika&Gid=1
Situation Comedy, Character and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst’s couch and closely examines the
characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia’s Kath & Kim, in order to reveal the essential elements that must
exist in a sitcom before even the first joke is written. Original in its approach, D.T. Klika uncovers major findings about the sitcom as well as human behavior and relationships that we find ‘arresting’ and even “familial”.
By offering a new way of reading the sitcom using psychoanalytic theory, this book can be used as a basis for engaging in critical
discourses as well as textual analysis of programs. Psychoanalytic theory enables a reading of character motivations and
relationships, in turn elucidating the power struggle that exists between characters in this form of comedy. Situation Comedy,
Character and Psychoanalysis shines a light on what is at play in the sitcom that makes us laugh, and why we love the characters we do, only to discover that this form of comedy is more complex than we first thought.
D.T. Klika Senior Lecturer Television and Film, Middlesex University, London.
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