Comedy

The Routledge comedy studies reader

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"The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010. The Reader illustrates the multiple perspectives that are available when analysing comedy. Wilkie's sel…

The Routledge comedy studies reader

0 Type: Book

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010. The Reader illustrates the multiple perspectives that are available when analysing comedy. Wilkie's sele…

Funny how?: sketch comedy and the art of humor

by Clayton, Alex

fromSUNY series, horizons of cinema

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"What makes something funny? Some take this question to be effectively unanswerable, while others turn to comic theory. Funny How? offers a new approach, showing how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayon writes that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its t…

Reader in comedy: an anthology of theory and criticism

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This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlight…

Reader in comedy: an anthology of theory and criticism

by Romanska, Magda, Ackerman, Alan L., (Alan Louis)

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"This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highligh…

Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism

0 Type: Book

This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlight…

Reader in comedy: an anthology of theory and criticism

0 Type: Book

This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlight…

The comic offense from Vaudeville to contemporary comedy: Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave …

by DesRochers, Rick

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"The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and T…

The comic offense from Vaudeville to contemporary comedy: Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave …

by DesRochers, Rick

0 Type: Book

"The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and T…

The comic offense from Vaudeville to contemporary comedy: Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave …

by DesRochers, Rick

0 Type: Book

"The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and T…