Popular film and television comedy / / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik
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| Autore: |
Neale Stephen
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| Titolo: |
Popular film and television comedy / / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/617 20 |
| 791.43617 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Altri autori: |
KrutnikFrank <1956->
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Popular film and television comedy |
| ISBN: | 1-134-94685-6 |
| 1-134-94686-4 | |
| 1-280-60375-5 | |
| 9786610603756 | |
| 0-203-13197-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783194303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Popular Fictions Series