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Laughing Out Loud : Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2000]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2019 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- PART I. Comic Elements and Exercises
- CHAPTER 1. Elements of Comedy That Writers Should Know
- CHAPTER 2. Exercises to Nurture the Comic Muse
- PART II. A Writer's Overview of the Traditions and Genres of Comedy
- CHAPTER 3. From Stage and Page to Screen: Anarchistic and Romantic Comedy
- CHAPTER 4. Physical Humor: From Commedia dell'Arte and Molière to Vaudeville and Silent Screen Comedy
- CHAPTER 5. Sound Comedy: American Screwball Romantic Comedy, Then and Now
- CHAPTER 6. Comedy and Television: Stand-up, Sitcom and Everything in Between
- CHAPTER 7. Comedies from around the World
- CHAPTER 8. Comedy and the Documentary Impulse
- PART III. Close-ups on Comedies
- CHAPTER 9. Feature Film Comedies
- CHAPTER 10. Television Comedy: Seinfeld and The Simpsons
- PART IV. Writing Comedy
- CHAPTER 11. The Fifteen-Week Feature Comedy Screenplay
- CHAPTER 12. The Seven-Week Half-Hour Television Comedy Pilot Script
- Beyond Happy Endings: Toward a Comic Conclusion
- Appendix 1. A Recommended Viewing List of American and Foreign Feature Comedies
- APPENDIX 2. Networking, Marketing and Making Your Own Comedy
- APPENDIX 3. Food, Recipes and Comic Screenwriting
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX