The Structure and Anti-Structure of Media Rituals: Changes of Narrative Patterns in CCTV Spring Festival Gala Comedy Skits

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2) : 92-112.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2) : 92-112.

The Structure and Anti-Structure of Media Rituals: Changes of Narrative Patterns in CCTV Spring Festival Gala Comedy Skits

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As integrative products of media rituals and dramas, the comedy skits in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala are supposed to carry out social and cultural mission in the form of dramatic con?icts. The narrative models of the comedy skits have seen subtle changes in the past three decades. From 1980s to 1990s, the intervention of negative problems in the comedy skits re?ected the anti-structural features of the media rites during the stage of limen, which conformed to the digestion of the sacred logic in the drama. While after 2000, the comedy skits tent to make a compromise between con?icts and harmony, modifying the personalization factors by introducing a solidary social community in the ceremony. In the last two years, however, the comedy skits were trying to resolve the conflicts and re-create an ideal social picture, strengthening the “structure” features in the media ritual and education functions of dramas.

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CCTV Spring Festival Gala comedy skits / media ritual / dramatic narrative / structure and anti-structure / sacred logic and realistic logic

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