{"product_id":"the-comic-event-comedic-performance-from-the-1950s-to-the-present-9781501335723","title":"The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Judith Roof\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Media Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event \u003c\/i\u003eapproaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an \"event\" that triggers, by virtue of a \"cut,\" an expected\/unexpected resolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing examples from mainstream comedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event \u003c\/i\u003eprogresses from the smallest comic moment-jokes, bits-to the more complex-caricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise \"Laughter,\" Sigmund Freud's \u003ci\u003eJokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e, and various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering event that resolves with a \"cut,\" Roof characterizes comedy not only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden expected\/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality, self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and aspects of performance in multiple contexts.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45086915428503,"sku":"9781501335723","price":11028.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501335723.webp?v=1769202467","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-comic-event-comedic-performance-from-the-1950s-to-the-present-9781501335723","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}