"The comedies of Aristophanes are known not only for their boldly imaginative plots but for the ways in which they incorporate and orchestrate a wide variety of literary genres and speech styles. In this study, Charles Platter interprets the complexities of Aristophanes' work th…
Papers presented at a conference, Athenian Law and Life, held in Glasgow, 30 June-2 July 2001.
Slapstick comedy and its cast of film stars' Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops, Fatty Arbuckle, and Buster Keaton among them' has long been viewed as central to the early formal development of narrative cinema generally, and of American cinema in particular. This new volume in …
Encourages us to wonder why critics have routinely dismissed the epic film. This work argues that blockbuster and artistic are not mutually exclusive terms and that epic film is an inherently profound genre in its ability to tap into a nation's dreams and fears.
Romantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy to the recent emergence of the bromance. Romantic Comedy examines the history of the genre, considering the social and cultural context for key develo…
HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show is a sketch comedy series with a cast and crew of Black women. I draw on rhetorical scholarship from various traditions and Black Feminist Standpoint to analyze how the writers and performers use humor imbued with African American rhetoric to cope …
“Eutrapelia: Humorous texts in Hellenistic poetry” provides a study of the literary humor in Hellenistic iambic poetry in the context of rapid political and cultural change in the Ancient Mediterranean of the third century BCE. This project clarifies several questions connected …
