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The complexities of the supposedly simple matter of comedy are rigorously and thoughtfully unpicked in this book, which offers a psychoanalytical framework that is both innovative and illuminating. By focussing on character, Klika's book develops fruitful frameworks for thinking about how comedy works in terms of narrative, genre and performance. As such, it represents a significant intervention in thinking about humour, television and the sitcom. * Brett Mills, Senior Lecturer in Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK *

The complexities of the supposedly simple matter of comedy are rigorously and thoughtfully unpicked in this book, which offers a psychoanalytical framework that is both innovative and illuminating. By focussing on character, Klika's book develops fruitful frameworks for thinking about how comedy works in terms of narrative, genre and performance. As such, it represents a significant intervention in thinking about humour, television and the sitcom. * Brett Mills, Senior Lecturer in Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK * This lively and engaging book, written from the perspective of a scriptwriter, brings a broad range of psychoanalytic theory to the understanding of our most cherished television characters and beloved incidents of recent and not so recent sit-coms from the UK, US and Australia. Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis provides an excellent treatment of the specificity of this comic form: it is original in its theoretical endeavour, incisive in its analyses, and compelling in its descriptions. The study is simultaneously comprehensive in scope and provocative in its demand for a deeper reflection on the attraction of the form and the nature of our investment in it. * Dr Lisa Trahair, School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Australia *

The complexities of the supposedly simple matter of comedy are rigorously and thoughtfully unpicked in this book, which offers a psychoanalytical framework that is both innovative and illuminating. By focussing on character, Klika’s book develops fruitful frameworks for thinking about how comedy works in terms of narrative, genre and performance. As such, it represents a significant intervention in thinking about humour, television and the sitcom. * Brett Mills, Senior Lecturer in Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK * This lively and engaging book, written from the perspective of a scriptwriter, brings a broad range of psychoanalytic theory to the understanding of our most cherished television characters and beloved incidents of recent and not so recent sit-coms from the UK, US and Australia. Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis provides an excellent treatment of the specificity of this comic form: it is original in its theoretical endeavour, incisive in its analyses, and compelling in its descriptions. The study is simultaneously comprehensive in scope and provocative in its demand for a deeper reflection on the attraction of the form and the nature of our investment in it. * Dr Lisa Trahair, School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Australia *

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D.T. Klika is Senior Lecturer in TV and Film Production at Middlesex University, UK. Klika has worked as a writer, producer, script advisor and written three sitcom pilots, one of which came fourth in the 2015 London Film Awards; another was awarded third place at the 2016 Cannes Screenplay Contest for best TV Comedy Pilot and has been produced as a research project for a book on writing and producing the fifteen minute TV Sitcom teaser pilot.

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