A Study On The Differentiation Of Narrative Strategies In Chinese And American Sitcoms

With the development of the domestic economy,watching TV has gradually become one of the main recreational activities of Chinese.Situational comedies featuring relaxed entertainment are becoming more and more popular with audiences,and many excellent dramas such as "Outside the Wulin" and "ipartment" have appeared.The smooth flow of the Internet and the popularity of electronic devices have caused a wave of American sitcoms in China.Starting from the emergence and development of Chinese and American sitcoms,this paper attempts to analyze the similarities and differences in narrative structure,narrative mode,narrative features,narrative language and narrative style of Chinese and American sitcoms,analyze the details and grasp the whole,so as to enlighten the current problems encountered in the creation of Chinese sitcoms and provide ideas for the development after the match,so as to promote the better development of this type of art.The full text is divided into three parts:The first part consists of the first two chapters.The first is the introduction,which summarizes the purpose and significance of this research under the condition of straightening out the large background of the research.Through searching relevant documents on HowNet,the research methods are summarized and the research contents are summarized.On this basis,the author sorts out the concept of situation comedy,summarizes and defines the concept,lists the basic characteristics of situation comedy,and makes a simple analysis of the narrative strategy of situation comedy.The second part is made up of the third chapter,which makes a comparative study of the narrative strategies of Chinese and American sitcoms from the perspective of cases.Represented by cases,this paper shows the classification characteristics of its characters,discusses the effects of modeling,character and action on the formation of characters and the shaping of images,and analyzes the elements with strong ethnic colors in different regions.The third part consists of the fourth chapter,which mainly summarizes the conclusion and inspiration from the comparison of Chinese and American sitcoms,explores the commercial features contained in the narrative context of American sitcoms,analyzes the influence of multicultural context on the narrative content,and explores the presentation of individualism values in sitcoms.Based on this,explore the road of progress for our sitcom.Increase investment and elaborate planning to create China’s own situation comedy that meets the audience’s taste,so as to realize the sound development of China’s situation comedy.