| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第8-12页 |
| Introduction:Approaching Sitcom Representation | 第12-13页 |
| Taking Sitcoms Seriously | 第13-15页 |
| Theoretical Framework | 第15-40页 |
| Methodology | 第40-43页 |
| Structure | 第43-46页 |
| Selection of Texts | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter 1 The Making of Sitcom | 第49-59页 |
| ·What is Sitcom? | 第49-50页 |
| ·Characteristics of Sitcom | 第50-52页 |
| ·Types of Sitcom | 第52-55页 |
| ·Ideology in Sitcom | 第55-58页 |
| Notes to Chapter l | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter 2 Ethnicity in American Sitcom from 1950s to 1980s | 第59-90页 |
| ·Colors in Sitcom | 第59-74页 |
| ·1950s:Appearance of Colors | 第61-65页 |
| ·1960s:Dis-appearance of Colors | 第65-68页 |
| ·1970s:Return of Colors | 第68-70页 |
| ·1980s:Celebrating Color Black | 第70-74页 |
| ·Major Features of Representations in Sitcoms | 第74-81页 |
| ·Domination of Whiteness | 第75-76页 |
| ·Black and White Binary | 第76-77页 |
| ·Negative Images | 第77-79页 |
| ·Ambivalence in Ethnic Discourse | 第79-81页 |
| ·Politics of Representation | 第81-89页 |
| ·Constructing Positive Images | 第81-83页 |
| ·(Cultural) Assimilation | 第83-85页 |
| ·Living with Differences | 第85-89页 |
| Notes to Chapter 2 | 第89-90页 |
| Chapter 3 Representing Ethnicity in Non-white American Sitcoms in the 1990s | 第90-149页 |
| ·The 1990s:A Different World? | 第91-99页 |
| ·General Social Political Context | 第91-96页 |
| ·Demographic Growth and Non-white Spending | 第96-97页 |
| ·Television Industry | 第97-99页 |
| ·Representations of Ethnicity in Non-white Sitcoms | 第99-147页 |
| ·Black Sitcoms | 第99-122页 |
| ·Commercial Networks Vying for the Market | 第101-108页 |
| ·Black's Presence and Portraits | 第108-118页 |
| ·Multiplicity/Diversity/Heterogeneity in Representing Blackness | 第118-122页 |
| ·Asian American Sitcoms | 第122-144页 |
| ·Asian Americans in the 1990s | 第123-130页 |
| ·Televisual Representations of Asian Americans | 第130-134页 |
| ·All-American Girl | 第134-144页 |
| ·Invisibility of Hispanic and Native American Sitcoms | 第144-147页 |
| Notes to Chapter 3 | 第147-149页 |
| Chapter 4 Representing"the Other"in White Sitcoms:A Quantitative Study of Seinfele and Friends | 第149-180页 |
| ·Stories of the Whites:Plot Summary of Seinfeld and Friends | 第152-155页 |
| ·Methodology | 第155-157页 |
| ·Categorization | 第157-160页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第160-179页 |
| ·White Domination | 第160-164页 |
| ·Unbanlaced Presence Among Peoples of Color | 第164-166页 |
| ·Difference in Gender Casting | 第166-168页 |
| ·Wide Range of Characters and Professions | 第168-171页 |
| ·Middle Class Privileged | 第171-172页 |
| ·Unnamed and inarticulated | 第172-174页 |
| ·Extensive Inter-racial Contact | 第174-179页 |
| Notes to Chapter 4 | 第179-180页 |
| Chapter 5 Representing"the Other"in White Sitcoms:A Qualitative Study of Seinfeld and Friends | 第180-244页 |
| ·White Skin Black Masks:Representations of Jewishness | 第180-188页 |
| ·Perfect"Bitch":Women of Color | 第188-209页 |
| ·Winner or Loser:Colored Men | 第209-226页 |
| ·Witch Girl and Clown Boy:Colored Children | 第226-233页 |
| ·Normalcy,Stereotyping,and Racism | 第233-243页 |
| Notes to Chapter 5 | 第243-244页 |
| Conclusion:Sitcom Situates Ethnicity | 第244页 |
| Knowledge Derived from the Study | 第244-248页 |
| Sitcom Situates Ethnicity | 第248-254页 |
| Implications for Future Sitcoms | 第254-255页 |
| Further Research | 第255-257页 |
| Bibliography | 第257-266页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第266-270页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第270-274页 |
