The sitcom wives: ilusions of the genre in en Wanda Vision and Kevin Can Fuck Himself

Authors

  • Lucas Gagliardi Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

sitcom, TV genre, trauma, metatelevision, feminine representation

Abstract

TV sitcoms from English-speaking world have worked as a longstanding and popular formula. With its six-decades history, the genre has condenses beliefs, evaluations, ideology and relevant themes. Two series released in 2021, WandaVision and Kevin Can Fuck Himself, make uses of a set of sitcom’s conventions in order to interrogate the ways in which this format establishes a way of looking. Even with their differences, both productions make a critical inquiry on the genre, its promises and illusion about American family and, specially, the wife’s role. By means of content analysis we explore the way in which these two series rewrite the sitcom genre and revise problems of representation onscreen as well as the spectators gaze.

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Author Biography

Lucas Gagliardi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Graduado de la carrera de Letras por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Especialista Docente de Nivel Superior en Escritura y Literatura por el Instituto Nacional de Formación Docente y maestrando en Literatura Comparada por la UNLP. Se desempeña como profesor en institutos de formación docente y escuelas secundarias. Ha participado en proyectos de investigación sobre archivos de escritores y literatura en lengua inglesa. E-mail: luke_in_spanish@yahoo.com.ar

Published

2022-06-07

How to Cite

Gagliardi, L. (2022). The sitcom wives: ilusions of the genre in en Wanda Vision and Kevin Can Fuck Himself. Imagofagia, (25), 8–32. Retrieved from https://imagofagia.asaeca.org/index.php/imagofagia/article/view/855

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