| Description |
viii, 291 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Popular fictions series |
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Popular fiction series.
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| Contents |
Definitions, genres, and forms -- Comedy and narrative -- Gags, jokes, wisecracks, and comic events -- Laughter, humor, and the comic -- Verisimilitude -- Hollywood, comedy, and the case of silent slapstick -- The comedy of the sexes -- Comedy, television, and variety -- Broadcast comedy and sit-com |
| Summary |
"How is comedy related to its institutional context? Neale and Krutnik, in this wide-ranging discussion of the genre, propose that comedy always involves deviation from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms"--Publisher description |
| Analysis |
Cinema films Comedies |
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Cinema films: Comedies |
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Television programmes Comedies |
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Television programmes: Comedies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-277) and index |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- History and criticism.
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Radio comedies -- History and criticism.
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Television comedies -- History and criticism.
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Radio comedies -- History.
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Television comedies -- History.
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Comic, The.
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Television comedies -- History and criticism.
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Television comedies -- History.
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Wit and humor.
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| Author |
Krutnik, Frank, 1956-
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| LC no. |
90008494 |
| ISBN |
0415046912 |
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0415046920 (paperback) |
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