The Comedy Studies Reader

Herausgeber: Sienkiewicz, Matt; Marx, Nick

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Produktbeschreibung

Surveying comedic texts and performers from The Jack Benny Program to Key and Peele, Saturday Night Live, and Stephen Colbert, this classroom-ready anthology offers a first-ever overview of the field of comedy studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781477316009
• ISBN-10: 1477316000
• Artikelnr.: 49676156

Autorenporträt

Edited by Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Volume Introduction: Comedy as Theory
Industry
and Academic Discipline
Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz 1. The Carnivalesque Introduction: The Naked GunA: Rabelais and His World
Mikhail BakhtinB: "The Frames of Comic 'Freedom
'" Umberto EcoC: "Sacred Catastrophe
Profane Laughter: Family Guy's Comedy in the Ritual of National Trauma
" Philip Scepanski 2. Comedy Mechanics & Absurdity Introduction: Man Seeking WomanA: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Henri BergsonB: The Logic of the Absurd
Jerry PalmerC: "Pie and Chase: Gag
Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy
" Donald CraftonD: "The New Logic of the Absurd: The Eric André Show
" Evan Elkins 3. Psychoanalyzing Comedy Introduction: ArcherA: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund FreudB: "Humor
" Sigmund FreudC: "Lacan's Harpo
" Paul FlaigD: "Revenge of the Nerds: Failure
Laughter
and Liberation on The Big Bang Theory
" Andrew J. Owens 4. Irony Introduction: Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner 2006A: Irony's Edge
Linda HutcheonB: "Speaking Too Soon: SNL
9/11
and the Remaking of American Irony
" Matt SienkiewiczC: "Welcome to the Clickhole: The Economics of Internet Parody and Critique
" Amber Day 5. Genre Introduction: 22 Jump StreetA: Popular Film and Television Comedy
Steve Neale and Frank KrutnikB: "Comedy Verité? The Observational Documentary Meets the Televisual Sitcom
" Ethan ThompsonC: "Inventing the Situation Comedy: Jack Benny
the 'Fall Guy
' and the Making of a Genre
" Kathryn Fuller-Seeley 6. Race & Ethnicity Introduction: Key and PeeleA: Watching Race
Herman GrayB: "The Culture Behind Closed Doors: Issues of Gender and Race in the Writers' Room
" Felicia D. HendersonC: "Naturalizing Racial Differences Through Comedy: Asian
Black
and White Views on Racial Stereotypes in Rush Hour 2
" Ji Hoon Park
Nadine G. Gabbadon
and Ariel R. CherninD: "'Indians on TV (and Netflix)': The Comedic Trajectory of Aziz Ansari
" Bhoomi K. Thakore and Bilal Hussain 7. Gender & Sexuality Introduction: Inside Amy SchumerA: The Unruly Woman
Kathleen Rowe KarlynB: Pretty/Funny
Linda MizejewskiC: "Generic Closets: Sitcoms
Audiences and Black Male Gayness
" Alfred L. Martin Jr. 8. Nation & Globalization Introduction: Klovn and Curb Your Enthusiasm
Peter Kragh Jensen and Matt SienkiewiczA: A National Joke
Andy MedhurstB: "Transnational TV Comedy Audiences
" Inger-Lise Kalviknes BoreC: "Transgressing Boundaries as the Hybrid Global: Parody and Postcoloniality on Indian Television
" Sangeet KumarD: "Comedy and the Nation in The Trip
" Brett Mills Index