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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968178103321
• Autore: Neale Stephen
• 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
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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 - History and criticism; Television comedies - History; Comic, The
• 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 (p. 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