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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800052703321

Autore

Neale Stephen

Titolo

Popular film and television comedy / / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1990

ISBN

1-134-94685-6

1-134-94686-4

1-280-60375-5

9786610603756

0-203-13197-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Popular Fictions Series

Altri autori (Persone)

KrutnikFrank <1956->

Disciplina

791.43/617 20

791.43617

Soggetti

Comedy films

Comedy films--History and criticism

Comic, The

History

Television comedies

Television comedies--History

Comedy films - History and criticism

Television comedies - History and criticism

Film

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the



remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the nature of these forms and conventions and to relate them to their institutional contexts. They propose that all forms and modes of the comic involve deviations from aesthetic and cultural conventions and n