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The comic event : comedic performance from the 1950s to the present /

"The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an "event" that triggers, by virtue of a "cut," an expected/un...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roof, Judith, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "A pert challenge flung at philosophic speculation"
  • "At first mere improvisation"
  • Reverberations : the joke of the joke
  • Repetition and the exquisite seriesness of series
  • "Play it again, Sheldon" : nothing in comedy ever only happens once
  • The comic uncanny, or, The character of caricature
  • Breaking stacks and cutting layers : the self-conscious comedy of comedy
  • Doubling down on the mise en abyme : the comic contexts of comedy
  • Ouroboros-Epanalepsis : "a pert challenge flung at philosophic speculation"
  • Ouroborobooboros, or, when parody takes itself on
  • The long and winding road
  • One more time : the aristocratic apparatus
  • And ... the time
  • ing is right : the politics of delay.