Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale

Popular Film and Television Comedy

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Produktbeschreibung

How is comedy related to its institutional context? Neale and Krutnik, in this wide-ranging discussion of the genre, propose that comedy always involves deviation from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138142176
• ISBN-10: 1138142174
• Artikelnr.: 71690870

Autorenporträt

Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik both lecture in Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Section 1 1 Definitions
genres
and forms 2 Comedy and narrative 3 Gags
jokes
wisecracks
and comic events 4 Laughter
humour
and the comic 5 Verisimilitude Section 2 6 Hollywood
comedy
and The Case of Silent Slapstick 7 The comedy of the sexes Section 3 8 Comedy
television
and variety 9 Broadcast comedy and sit-com