Bibliography

Update - 2.04.2014

Friends: 20 years old and still the best-ever show about twentysomethings
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/jan/08/friends-20-years-best-show-twentysomethings

Friends for ever: Why we're still loving the hit TV show 20 years on
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2465332/Friends-Why-loving-hit-TV-20-years-on.html. Michelle Davies, October 20, 2013.


Ethnicity & Race on Friends

A semi-alphabetical listing of Black actors with speaking roles on Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUc0vbSlanM. Docfuture1, December 16, 2010.


Events & Trends that Affected Friends in Series 1 (94/95)

Photo of old mobile phones
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2013/09/life-as-a-teenager-in-1994-2014-and-2034-what-a-difference-a-generation-makes-part-2/

Photo of Jill Goodacre with mobile phone (cell phone)
http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Jill_Goodacre

Photos of Rachel and Phoebe showing the fashion at the time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/10/friends-season-1-fashion_n_1765222.html


Events & Trends that Affected Friends in Series 2 (95/96)

Piece of text about "The One After the Superbowl" Decision
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_After_the_Superbowl

Photo of Rachel in USA top
http://tincanculture.com/2014/02/23/friends-the-one-with-phoebes-husband/

Photo of Phoebe's tartan dress

http://www.tbs.com/shows/friends/0,,30998,00.html

Photo of Eddie in Flannel shirt

http://friends-rewatch.tumblr.com/post/55545349146/friends-rewatch-wed-6-30pm-et

Photo of Joey in Flannel shirt

http://processedmedia.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/friends-the-one-where-eddie-moves-in-the-one-where-dr-ramoray-dies-reviews/

Useful Website - 04.05.2014

Website with all information about Friends

http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Friends_Wiki

Research - Week Commencing 30th June

Erin Todd, DePauw University. Friends & Masculinity: A Fresh Portrayal of Men.

http://erintodd.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/seminar-friends-and-masculinity.pdf

L. Monique Ward & Kimberly Friedman. Research on Adolescence.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2006.00125.x/full

Youqing Xu. Gender Differences in Mixed-sex Conversations.

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:303562/FULLTEXT02.pdf

Lisa Marie Marshall, Graduate College of Bowling Green. 

"I'll Be There For You" If You Are Just Like Me: An Analysis of Hegemonic Social Structures in "Friends".

https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1182538485&disposition=inline

Research - Week Commencing 7th July

"Friends" by Baba Bing. 
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pe2qa1s9mCYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA131&dq=Gender+Roles+In+Friends+Chandler+Bing&ots=EFwfSc6xmQ&sig=zSLJaiaUx2af9IG5WQKrWbMHnHw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Yao Xiaosu, University Gent. "Conversational Implicature Analysis of Humour in American Situation Comedy "Friends""
http://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/414/124/RUG01-001414124_2010_0001_AC.pdf

Irina Wamsler. "The American way of comedy"
http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/78804/the-american-way-of-comedy-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-humor-on-the-basis

Han Zhao, Auckland University of Technology. "A comparative analysis of subtitling strategies - Culture Specific Items in the series Friends".
http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/890/ZhaoH.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

Rebecca Feasey, Masculinity and Popular Television.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=WlVCSmCzvqkC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Gender+Roles+In+Friends+Chandler+Bing&ots=ApeYsizHxI&sig=-XzzrpAs1y682-#v=onepage&q&f=false

"Why was the television show Friends so popular?"

http://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-television-series-Friends-so-popular

Update 4/2/2015

 http://eprints.ibu.edu.ba/908/


In essay:

"the normative American family consisted of a breadwinner father, homemaker mother, and several children" quote
http://bishopfamily.com/essays/family_structure_changes.htm

Figure 1

http://research.northumbria.ac.uk/support/2012/10/23/telling-a-good-story-impact-case-studies-as-narrative-arc/