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标题：Magnifying the Ordinary: Genre Mixture and Humour in the TV Series Chuck
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作者：Carmen Gregori-Signes
期刊名称：Communication and Culture Online
电子版ISSN：2217-4257
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：157-167
出版社：FOKUS – Forum za Interkulturnu Komunikaciju
摘要：Chuck is an American television series about a “normal” guy who works at the Buy More. His life changes dramatically when he becomes the most important person for the USA intelligence. This gives rise to a conflict between civilian and spy life. The analysis involves a multimodal account (cf. Lorenzo-Dus 2009) of the aesthetics (Cardwell 2005) of the second season that illustrates how the series establishes a parallelism between Chuck’s life as a spy and that of his colleagues at the Buy More. By combining elements from different genres (Altman 1989) it portrays a rather “different from what may be the expected-representation” (Kress and van Leeuwen 2001:10) of the routine at the workplace (Armstrong 2005), thus depicting a rare humorous magnification of the ordinary life of a group of ordinary citizens with an ordinary job (cf. Beeden and Bruin 2011).
关键词：multimodal analysis; genre; television series; humour.