Monthly Archives: March 2012

According to the article, people may have greater feeling on their ethnicity in the film. For example, an African American may have stronger feelings on African Americans depicted in the films than other people of different ethnicity. They would be … Continue reading →

In his essay entitled, “Bakhtin, Polyphony, and Racial-Ethnic Representation”, Robert Stam said that Bakhtinian analysis of film can allow viewers to examine ethnic relationships without being concerned about truth and fact. This idea appealed to me when I watched the … Continue reading →

Welcome Back, Kotter uses comic relief to cover the tense urban space where the characters perform. After re-watching the first and second episodes, I noticed that the space allotted is quite clustered. In the first episode, Pilot, we see Kotter’s … Continue reading →

Welcome Back, Kotter is a seventies’ television sitcom with a hackneyed concept. A man, Kotter, reluctantly becomes a teacher at his old high school. He becomes a mentor to a group of misfit kids and along with teaching them he … Continue reading →

Ethnicity is a key component in the humor that makes Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-79) come alive. Even though I didn’t find the show to be hilarious (that may be because the humor was from a different time period), I did … Continue reading →

Although I thought the humor in Radio Days (1987) was superior to that of Welcome Back Kotter, I found some striking similarities between Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) and a few of the characters in Radio Days. However, I felt like the … Continue reading →

Welcome Back, Kotter and Woody Allen don’t have much in common, other than the outdated humor that I’m personally not a fan of.  On one hand, Woody Allen makes a point of projecting his disillusionment with many aspects of his … Continue reading →

I think, in Welcome Back, Kotter(1975-1979), Gabe Kaplan’s choice of setting the show in school is very interesting and proper because school is a most likely place where people from different ethnicities gather and interact with each other. Class is … Continue reading →

Comedy can serve as a disguise for many issues being portrayed by the media. Racial tensions and stereotypes are just one of these issues that ignite less controversy once wrapped up in comedy. Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1975) is a sitcom … Continue reading →

I think it would be very interesting to juxtapose and compare the characters of Kotter and Woody Allen. So far I’ve seen two Woody Allen films, Manhattan and Radio Days, as well as clips from Annie Hall. Although the characters … Continue reading →