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"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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Neale, Stephen
Other Authors: Krutnik, Frank, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.
Series:Popular fiction series.
Subjects:
Comedy films > History and criticism.
Television comedies > History.
Comic, The.
Films comiques > Histoire et critique.
Émissions comiques > Histoire.
Télévision > Émissions comiques > Histoire.
Comique.
Comédies télévisées > Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Comedy films
Comic, The
Television comedies
Filmkomödie
Fernsehkomödie
Film
Komische films.
Humor (grappigheden)
Televisie.
Cinema films: Comedies
Television programmes: Comedies
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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