02977nam 2200673Ia 450 991082319450332120200520144314.01-134-94685-61-134-94686-41-280-60375-597866106037560-203-13197-510.4324/9780203131978(CKB)1000000000006242(EBL)178274(OCoLC)475881568(SSID)ssj0000224472(PQKBManifestationID)11210503(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224472(PQKBWorkID)10206886(PQKB)11127364(MiAaPQ)EBC178274(OCoLC)70768999(EXLCZ)99100000000000624219900412d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPopular film and television comedy /Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19901 online resource (302 p.)Popular fictions seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-14217-4 0-415-04692-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 fiction series.Comedy filmsHistory and criticismTelevision comediesHistoryComic, TheComedy filmsHistory and criticism.Television comediesHistory.Comic, The.791.43/617 20791.43617Neale Stephen1661621Krutnik Frank1956-550303MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823194503321Popular film and television comedy4017665UNINA