03575oam 2200853I 450 991045029430332120211027180916.01-134-94686-41-280-60375-597866106037560-203-13197-510.4324/9780203131978(CKB)1000000000006242(EBL)178274(OCoLC)475881568(SSID)ssj0000224472(PQKBManifestationID)11210503(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224472(PQKBWorkID)10206886(PQKB)11127364(MiAaPQ)EBC178274(OCoLC)70768999(EXLCZ)99100000000000624220180331d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPopular film and television comedy /Steve Neale and Frank KrutnikLondon ;New York :Routledge,1990.1 online resource (302 p.)Popular Fictions SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-14217-4 0-415-04692-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-277) and index.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; IndexSteve 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 nPopular Fictions SeriesComedy filmsComedy films--History and criticismComic, TheHistoryTelevision comediesTelevision comedies--HistoryComedy filmsHistory and criticismTelevision comediesHistory and criticismComic, TheFilmHILCCMusic, Dance, Drama & FilmHILCCElectronic books.Comedy films.Comedy films--History and criticism.Comic, The.History.Television comedies.Television comedies--History.Comedy filmsHistory and criticismTelevision comediesHistory and criticismComic, TheFilmMusic, Dance, Drama & Film791.43/617 20791.43617Neale Stephen1950-679480Krutnik Frank1956-550303AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910450294303321Popular film and television comedy1536771UNINA