MANCHILD FEMINISM IN SIT COM
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UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN
MEDIA PRODUCTION
Assignment Title: Feminist Influence on British Television
Sit-coms
Case Study: Manchild
Brief:
Analyse an example of one of the programme types on the unit in order to show how its characters / participants and other representations relate to questions of ideology.
Example should be a single episode broadcast after 3 February 2003.
max 1260 words.
Author: Paul Cook
Deadline: 09.05.2003
MANCHILD
This essay will describe how the recently created television sitcom Manchild has redefined the stereotype of the middle-aged man and reflects current masculine reaction to the propagation of feminist ideology throughout western society. It will also relate the characters, participants and other representations in the programme exampled to these ideological and cultural changes. The essay will argue that the television genre known as Sitcom or Situation Comedy has since the 1960s, continuously reflected through humorous drama, the serious underlying and in some respects unacknowledged difficulties of gender discourse that adults have generally failed to recognise, confront or deal with in open debate. As Cath Fletcher put it in her thesis on Feminism in February 2000, describing recent changes to some certain British television programmes as .. the most striking examples of anti-feminist backlash..