The poetics of comic Arrested Development and the Reversibility

Authors

  • Christian Hugo Pelegrini Author Univ. São Paulo

Keywords:

Sitcom, Poetic, Reversibility

Abstract

The article analyzes the construction processes of comedy in the Americansitcom Arrested Development. Considered by specialized critics as anexample of innovation in language and semiotic density, the program is anexample of the kind of textual construction that is inserted into the phenomenonof the American reversibility proposed by North American JasonMittel. When analyzing poetic processes in the construction of anagrammatichumor and multi-isotope, we explain the demand that the text thatgenerates for repeated reading processes that may deplete their mevanings.

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Author Biography

Christian Hugo Pelegrini, Univ. São Paulo

Doutorando do programa de Meios e Processos Audiovisuais da ECA - USP, professor da PUC - SP e da Univ. São Judas Tadeu.

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Published

2012-10-16

How to Cite

Pelegrini, C. H. (2012). The poetics of comic Arrested Development and the Reversibility. Palabra Clave, 15(3), 619–648. Retrieved from https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/2548

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2012): Cultura (audio)visual

Section

Poetics

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