Warmedy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Warmedy is a noun meaning (television) A warm-hearted comedy targeted at a family audience.
Meaning
(television) A warm-hearted comedy targeted at a family audience.
Example Sentences
It preserves the blue-collar setting of The Flintstones, and the family constellations are similar, but the "warmedy" Flintstone world is turned on its ear.
Another popular “warmedy” (warm family comedy) of the late 1980s was Family Ties, which starred Michael J. Fox as the eldest sibling in a close-knit family.
The "capitalization, dematerialization, and idealization" of this "warmedy" (an awkward term used by Budd, Steinman, and other critics to denote a "comedy overlaid with empathetic audience identification") extended even to the lives and celebrity status of the actors who played the show's universally loathed or much-loved characters.
Word Forms
- warmedies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include warmer, warm-heartedness, heart-warmer, warmthness, comedy, warmth.
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