BUI301F2022/TV Comedy: Multicamera
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New Adventures of Old Christine diagram.
Format
- Catchphrase.
- Laughtrack.
- Commercial breaks.
- Recurring narrative problematic
- 30-minutes long
Mode of production
- Shot on film, not live
- Syndication quality
- Appears to be live, with a laughtrack
Dominant ideology (Zeitgeist)
- Characters expressing opposing views
- Polysemy = many meanings
Seinfeld's innovations
- Director Tom Cherones
- Below are stills from the recreated set, used in an episode of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm and a set miniature by Charles Brogdon.
The set as recreated for Curb Your Enthusiasm.
A Curb Your Enthusiasm scene.
Set miniature.
Seinfeld scene reenactment
A reenactment of this scene from "The Contest" as a series of still photographs.
- Cast
- Logan as Jerry
- Ava as George
- Marguerite as Elaine
Establishing shot of the diner, with Jerry and George.
George: "Well, my mother..."
Jerry: "But you're still master of your domain?"
George: "I'm king of the county."
Elaine enters: "John F. Kennedy, Junior!"
Jerry looks at Elaine: "Did you talk to him?"
Three-shot. Elaine tells her John F. Kennedy, Jr. story.
Two-shot of Elaine and George.
Jerry: "Are you still master of your domain?"
Elaine: "I am queen of the castle."
Texts & resources
- Jeremy G. Butler, The Sitcom (New York: Routledge, 2020).
- Seinfeld scene breakdown materials
