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Sitcom as refuge, sitcom as prison: Nostalgia, anti‐nostalgia, and the embedded multi‐camera sitcom in WandaVision and Kevin Can Fk Himself
Ist Teil von
Journal of popular culture, 2024-08, Vol.57 (4), p.221-232
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Quelle
Access via Wiley Online Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article claims that the recent trend in television and web streaming drama series to feature segments shot in the style of a multi‐camera sitcom, a phenomenon which is termed “embedded sitcom,” reflects the current popularity of nostalgia in popular culture. Situating the sitcom in the context of television history and theories of nostalgia, the article argues that embedded sitcom reveals the nostalgic quality of the sitcom genre as well as of the medium of television, and negotiates a larger cultural conflict between the lucrative potency of nostalgia for past media formats and a wariness of nostalgia as politically regressive.