The Misunderstanding In The Writing Of Introduced Sitcom And Its Localization In China

Pushed by the market economy of China, elite culture has been replaced by mass culture which leads to a trend that relaxing TV shows are in the favor of Chinese people. Sitcom brings a fresh breeze to the audiences who have been tired with the flooding variety or entertainment shows on TV. However, during its ten-year development, sitcom has not form a complete system of making and projecting, and it also receives cold treatment, thus, its rate and scale of development is relatively slower than films and other forms of TV plays. This phenomenon attracts the attention of the academic professionals in the field of Film and Television Arts. The academic field of China, especially, has not entered into the research of sitcom. If the problems come out, there are no suitable solutions for the lack of theories. Unluckily, a small group of researchers each sticks to their own viewpoints. In this thesis, we try to start our discussion from the specific performance of the bottleneck occurred in the development of sitcom. Then we would make a rational analysis of the questions happened in the 15-year development of sitcom from the aspects of objective reasons (the developing background of introduced sitcom and the comparison of the developing situation of Chinese and American sitcoms) and subjective reasons (the misunderstanding of the writing of sitcoms). A combination of various views would help us to predict the future of sitcom and to make the research completely.Sitcom is a product of mass culture with the time and the comprehensive research and analysis would make it serve the mass in a better way.