A modern version of restoration comedy? Double entendre, objectification, fearful men and rakes manqué in the television work of Benny Hill

IF 0.9 2区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI:10.1177/17496020231214478

Joseph Gibbs

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Abstract

Benny Hill’s once globally popular (but controversial) television humour was often built around elements associated with Restoration comedy. These included double entendre; the objectification of women (which Hill in the 1980s intensified, to the detriment of his comedy and career); and themes involving men fearing women. Additionally, some of Hill’s characters had traits suggestive of those of Restoration comedy, although his men generally lacked the classic rakes’ social status and sexual success, and their frequent failures introduced into Hill’s comedy an ironic caricature of contemporary views of male sexuality and ego.

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现代版的复辟喜剧?在本尼·希尔的电视作品中，双关语、物化、可怕的男人和耙子

本尼·希尔(Benny Hill)曾经在全球广受欢迎(但备受争议)的电视幽默常常围绕着与复辟时期喜剧有关的元素。这些包括双关语;对女性的物化(希尔在20世纪80年代加剧了这种物化，损害了他的喜剧和事业);以及涉及男人害怕女人的主题。此外，希尔的一些角色具有复辟时期喜剧的特征，尽管他笔下的男人普遍缺乏典型的罗克斯的社会地位和性成功，他们频繁的失败给希尔的喜剧带来了对当代男性性和自我观念的讽刺漫画。

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Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.