| Description |
1 online resource (302 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Definitions, genres, and forms; 2 Comedy and narrative; 3 Gags, jokes, wisecracks, and comic events; 4 Laughter, humour, and the comic; 5 Verisimilitude; 6 Hollywood, comedy, and The Case of Silent Slapstick; 7 The comedy of the sexes; 8 Comedy, television, and variety; 9 Broadcast comedy and sit-com; Notes and References; Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- History and criticism
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Comic, The.
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Television comedies -- History
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Comedy films
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Comic, The
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Television comedies
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Krutnik, Frank
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| ISBN |
9780203131978 |
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0203131975 |
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