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



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Autore: Neale Stephen Visualizza persona
Titolo: Popular film and television comedy / / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik Visualizza cluster
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->  
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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Serie: Popular Fictions Series