Analiza klasnih obilježja BBC-jevih sitcoma Only Fools and Horses i You Rang M'Lord

master's thesis

• Title (english): An Analysis of Class Characteristics in the BBC Sitcoms Only Fools and Horses and You Rang M'Lord
• Author: Ana Mrkonjić
• Mentor: Antonija Čuvalo (mentor)
• Committee member: Antonija Čuvalo (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Zrinjka Peruško (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Dina Vozab (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; The Faculty of Political Science; (Department of Media and Communication); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2018-09-25, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information and Communication Sciences; Journalism

Abstract

Mućke i Zvonili ste Milorde britanske su komedije situacije. Mućke Johna Sullivana počele su se emitirati 1981. godine. Emitirane su ukupno 64 epizode a zadnja epizoda prikazana je 2003.godine. Zvonili ste Milorde stvorili su Jimmy Perry i David Croft, a emitirano je ukupno 26 epizoda u periodu od 1990.-1993. godine. Specifičnost oba sitcoma iskazuje se kroz karakterizaciju likova i njihovog životnog te radni prostor. Upravo zbog toga odabrala sam ova dva sitcoma kako bi prezentirala kako se klasne reprezentacije konstruiraju kroz brojne situacije u kojima se nalaze likovi visoke i manualne radničke klase. Zbog toga je kao temeljni okvir za teorijski dio odabrana je društvena stratifikacija te klasa kao oblik društvene stratifikacije. Istraživački dio rada usmjeren je na analizu narativa koja je rađena na uzorku od tri sezone sitcoma Mućke i dvije sezone sitcoma Zvonili ste Milorde. Od toga su detaljno analizirane prve epizode prve tri sezone Mućki i prve epizode prve dvije sezone komedije situacije Zvonili ste Milorde. Analiza narativa pokazala se najpogodnijom, budući da narativ predstavlja niz situacija koje su nam eksplicitno i implicitno prikazane, te na temelju kojih moramo vaditi zaključke. Cilj istraživanja bio je spoznati postoje li jasno izražena klasna obilježja u ovim sitcomima, kojim su obilježjima okarakterizirani pripadnici manualne radničke klase, a kojim pripadnici visoke klase, koji su poslovi karakteristični za radničku a koji za visoku klasu, koje ih socijalne karakteristike prate i jesu li pojedini likovi diskriminirani na osnovi klasnog identiteta.

Abstract (english)

Only Fools and Horses and You Rang M'Lord? are British sitcoms. Created by writer John Sullivan, Only Fools and Horses originally broadcast in the United Kingdom in year 1981. In 2003 was the last from Sixty-four episodes of Only Fools and Horses broadcast. You Rang M'Lord? Was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, 26 episodes were aired from 1988 to 1993. The specificity of both series are class characteristics which are expressed through the characterization of the characters and their living and working space. Because of that I chose these two sitcoms, so I could present the construction of class differences through numerous situations in which high and manual working class characters are located. Therefore, social stratification and class as a form of social stratification are chosen, as a basic framework for the theoretical part. The research part of the work is focused on narrative analysis, which is based on a sample of three seasons of Only Fools and Horses and two seasons of You Rang M'Lord? Sitcoms. Of these, first episodes of the first three seasons of Only Fools and Horses and first episodes of the first two seasons of You Rang M'Lord? are analyzed in detail. Narrative analysis proved to be the most appropriate, since narrative represents a series of situations which are explicitly and implicitly presented to us and based on which we have to draw conclusions. The aim of the research was to comprehend if there are clearly expressed class identities ih these sitcoms, with which characteristics are the members of the manual workers' class and with which thoes of the high class characterized, which jobs are typical of the manual working class and which of the high class, which social characteristics characterize them and whether there are some individual characters that are discriminated on the basis of class attributes.

• Keywords: klasa; reprezentacija klase; društvena stratifikacija; diskriminacija
• Keywords (english): class; class representation; social stratification; discrimination
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:114:448738
• Study programme: Title: Journalism; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra novinarstva (magistar/magistra novinarstva)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Closed access
• Created on: 2018-12-07 12:48:53