The comedy studies reader

The comedy studies reader

by Marx, Nick Sienkiewicz, Matt

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From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original es…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The comedy studies reader / edited by Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz.

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From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and approaches for studying comedic media--the carnivalesque, comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field--first, comedy's development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the present as a "comedy zeitgeist"; and second, comedy studies' new focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in "serious" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2018.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1477316019, 9781477316016
  • oclc:on1037812636
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.C55
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43/617

Table of Contents

Volume introduction : comedy as theory, industry, and academic discipline -- The carnivalesque -- Comedy mechanics & absurdity -- Psychoanalyzing comedy -- Irony -- Genre -- Race & ethnicity -- Gender & sexuality -- Nation & globalization.

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Subjects

Cinéma -- 20e siècle. -- États-Unis Comédie -- Aspect social -- États-Unis Comédie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Comédies télévisées -- Histoire et crit… Comedy Comedy -- History -- 20th century Comedy -- Social aspects Comedy -- Social aspects -- United Stat… Comedy films Comedy films -- History and criticism. … Criticism, interpretation, etc Culture populaire -- Histoire -- 20e si… Films comiques -- Histoire et critique.… History Motion pictures Motion pictures -- 20th century. -- Uni… PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference Popular culture Popular culture -- History -- 20th cent… Television comedies

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Marx, Nick Sienkiewicz, Matt

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