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"Will & Grace"


"Will & Grace"
Critical analysis of NBC sitcom. Compared to "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in terms of bringing new social issues to public view.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages) | 3 sources | 2001 United States


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"The controversies generated by television programming often appear in very different lights depending on which critical approach one takes to them. A brief analysis of the NBC series Will and Grace (1998-) via the "cultural" approach of Newcomb and Hirsch and the Gramscian "hegemonic" analysis of Gitlin provides insights into the program and into the theories as well.

Will and Grace is a sitcom that deals with the lives of the title characters, respectively a very successful New York attorney and an interior designer. Will is gay and Grace is straight and the supporting characters, Jack and Karen, are Will's friend and Grace's do-nothing employee. Jack and Karen are a flamboyant, self-involved gay man and a flamboyant, self-involved straight woman. Both are comic sexual predators; Jack wants to sleep with every man he meets and Karen has married ..."

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"Will & Grace" (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Will-Grace/10925

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""Will & Grace"" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Will-Grace/10925>




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