Glyn White, John Mundy

Laughing Matters

Understanding Film, Television and Radio Comedy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An incisive, witty and comprehensive textbook that looks at the many genres of comedy from silent film onwards. Covering film, televison and radio it is not only up-to-date but also provides full historical context. It focuses on all of the key issues studied on university courses. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083143
• ISBN-10: 0719083141
• Artikelnr.: 36124593

Autorenporträt

John Mundy is Glyn White is Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Comedy forms 1
Silent film comedy 2 Early sound film comedy 3 The romantic comedy film 4
Radio comedy 5 Television comedy 6 Comedy and genre boundaries 7 Animated
comedy Part II: Themes, effects and impact of comedy 8 Comedy, gender and
sexuality 9 Comedy and cultural value: from bad taste to gross-out 10
Comedy, race and ethnicity Conclusion: 'You had to be there' Appendix
Bibliography Index