| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) |
| Contents |
'At ease, corporal' : social class and the situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to the 1990s / Stephen Wagg -- The Lancashire shaman : Frank Randle and Mancunian films / C.P. Lee -- Butterflies and caustic asides : housewives, comedy and the feminist movement / Maggie Andrews -- Tarts, tampons and tyrants : women and representation in British comedy / Laraine Porter -- Certain liberties have taken with Cleopatra : female performance in the Carry on films / Frances Gray -- Punching your weight : conversations with Jo Brand / Stephen Wagg -- The straight men of comedy / Mark Simpson -- Suits and sequins : lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the 1990s / Frances Williams -- 'Yeah, and I used to be a hunchback' : immigrants, humour and the Marx brothers / C.P. Lee -- 'Where everybody knows your name' : open convictions and closed contexts in the American situation comedy / Paul Wells -- Cringe and strut : comedy and national identity in post-war Australia / John McCallum -- 'Serious t'ing' : the black comedy circuit in England / Stephen Small -- 'They already got a comedian for governor' : comedians and politics in the United States and Great Britain / Stephen Wagg -- VIZ : gender, class and taboo / Dave Huxley -- Heard the one about the white middle-class heterosexual father-in-law? : gender, ethnicity and political correctness in comedy / Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering |
| Summary |
Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Television comedies.
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Comedy films.
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Comedy.
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Comic, The.
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comedy plays.
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ART -- Reference.
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ART -- Performance.
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Comedy
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Comedy films
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Comic, The
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Television comedies
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Filmkomödie
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Gesellschaft
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Televisieseries.
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Komedies.
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Representatie (algemeen)
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Humor (grappigheden)
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Television comedies -- History and criticism.
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Comedy films -- History and criticism.
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Commedia dell'arte.
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Comic, The.
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Comédies (cinéma) -- Grande-Bretagne.
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Comédies télévisées -- Grande-Bretagne.
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Télévision -- Émissions comiques.
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Cinéma.
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Comédie -- Au cinéma.
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Comédie -- A la télévision.
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Großbritannien
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USA
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Electronic books
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Comedy films
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Television comedies
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Comedy television programs.
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Comedy films.
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Comedies.
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Comedy films.
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Television comedies.
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Films comiques.
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Comédies télévisées.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wagg, Stephen.
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| LC no. |
97023653 |
| ISBN |
0203208323 |
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9780203208328 |
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0203288483 |
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9780203288481 |
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6610104700 |
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9786610104703 |
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9780415129213 |
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0415129214 |
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