Comedy Vérité: Arrested Development and the Docusoap Form

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  • David Madison

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/forbes5.2013.13

Abstract

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Ibid, 75.

Mills, Brett. “Comedy Verite: Contemporary Sitcom Form.” Screen 45:1 (2004): 63-78. Web. 63.

Ibid.

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Ibid.

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Ibid.

Ibid, 67.

Ibid, 68.

Ibid, 65.

Mamber, Stephen. “Cinema Verite: Definitions and Background.” Cinema Verite in America: Studies in Uncontrolled Documentary. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1974. 1-22. Web. 4.

Ibid.

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Ibid, 70.

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Mills, Brett. “Comedy Verite: Contemporary Sitcom Form.” Screen 45:1 (2004): 63-78. Web. 68.

Thompson, Ethan. “Comedy Verité? The Observational Documentary Meets The Televisual Sitcom.” Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television 60 (2007): 63-72. Web. 68.

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