Film and television literature papers

As a type of TV program, sitcom has a history of more than 50 years in the United States and has matured. Various theoretical guidance and comments have made American sitcoms rich in successful experience. It, drama series and movies (including TV movies) are the three major types of TV dramas in American prime time at night, and the ratings are often among the best.

However, since the first sitcom "I Love My Family" of 1994 came out, the development of this program type in China has not been smooth. The growth of more than ten years has not made it have a perfect production and broadcasting system, and it has also received a cold reception in broadcasting and viewing. Although the shooting technology of sitcom is improving day by day, the plot, paragraphs and performances are more mature and more in line with the public's taste, but its essence has never changed. After all, a sitcom is a 30-minute performance, and the actors entertain the audience in familiar situations. Throughout the history of TV development, we can see that different sitcoms have many similarities, which may be the vitality of sitcoms.

Looking back on the road of China's sitcom, from the hit screen of I Love My Family in 1992, there was a symbolic "founding period", a "thinking period" with insufficient stamina, and it also experienced "climax period" and "flat period" in 15 years. As Miao Di, a professor at the College of Literature of Communication University of China, said, "The first work of China's sitcom reached its peak directly, but then it went downhill." Although with the popularity of excellent works such as The Story of the Cooking Class, Legend of Wulin, Family with Children and so on, this situation of "outshining others" has changed, and sitcoms have gradually found their place in the highly competitive TV media pattern and ushered in the "second spring" of their careers. But at the same time, the development of this drama is like dancing in chains.

Generally, it is broadcast in columns with fixed time, and the stories of each episode are relatively independent and interrelated; Most of them are recorded in the recording studio, and there is basically no need for location; Citizenization is mainly to express the daily life of ordinary people and win by language; Assembly line creation mostly adopts production and broadcasting mode, which can reflect social life in time. Squeezed into these basic formatted frames, many works have exaggerated plots, vulgar jokes, heavy fabrication traces, and no attractive stories and stand-up characters. Despite the directors' efforts, the innovation road of sitcom is getting narrower and narrower.

According to Zhou Xing, a professor at the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University, there are more and more "skills" and less and less "art" in the creation of sitcoms. "That is to say, sitcom creation pays more and more attention to" making "and gradually gives up" creating ". Some netizens hit the nail on the head and pointed out that China's sitcom has entered an era of not accepting too much and copying too much, and young chinese's sitcom has begun to write memoirs.

Some experts pointed out that the constraints of traditional ideas, the loss of cultural values and other factors, especially the lack of innovative consciousness, have restricted the development of China sitcom to varying degrees. How to be close to the people is the lifeline of sitcom, and it is also the weakest link of sitcom at present.

It can be seen from the popularity of dramas such as Legend of Wulin and Family with Children that the market of China sitcom has not subsided. One is the strong demand of the audience, and the other is the aesthetic requirements of the audience. The demand for sitcoms and the lack of content have become a big "pain" for TV screens.

Judging from the current overall social environment, the creative theme and satire of sitcoms are bound by tangible or intangible rules and regulations, and only by wandering on the edge of various dramas can they win some awards. In Shang Jing's view, more open themes, deeper satire and better production should be the development direction of future sitcoms.

Ying Da, known as "the father of China sitcom", also lamented that the creative environment of sitcom was very bad. "We can only explore and see what other animals and birds can eat. It's only a matter of time before a hundred flowers blossom in comedy. We won't just sing praises. This is not the function of comedy. "

Some of our viewers prefer to watch others being satirized, but they can't see themselves or people close to them being satirized. Because the audience is easy to "fly into a rage", the creators of sitcoms always intentionally or unintentionally avoid the audience's fierce reaction. It leads to the serious phenomenon of following the trend and cloning in the creation of sitcoms, which directly affects the originality and pioneering of sitcoms in subject matter.

However, without irony, sitcoms will lose their value, so it is more and more difficult to stir in the cracks. "To solve these problems, the social mind needs to be more and more mature." TV viewers should be able to joke, watch sitcoms with a self-deprecating attitude and face problems with a calm attitude. This is also a kind of "lifting weights as easily as possible".

I think it is more important to deconstruct the heavy attitude towards life for the social responsibility of China sitcom. The purpose of these sitcoms created for the post-80s generation is by no means "spoofing", but in a unique form, which contains the core of traditional moral concepts and the values of seeking truth from goodness, just in line with the special needs of modern people.

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