Search results for “[subject: comedy]”

• Author(s): Alison Wilde • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialComedy and humour have frequently played a key role in disabled people's lives, for better or for worse. Comedy has also ...

• Author(s): Robert Westwood | Carl Rhodes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Organizational BehaviorAccessible and amusing in style, Humour, Work and Organization explores the critical, subversive and ambivalent chara...

• Author(s): James V. Morrison • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureComedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 ye...

• Author(s): Frank Krutnik | Steve Neale • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesHow is comedy related to its institutional context? Neale and Krutnik, in this wide-ranging discussion of the genre, propose that...

• Author(s): Brian Cooke • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Radio - GeneralWriting Comedy for Television (1983) is a practical, step-by-step manual about how and what to write. It contains many examples from the script...

• Author(s): James Feibleman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1939, the original blurb begins: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter, yet laughter is only what we do ab...

• Author(s): G. Neil Martin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EmotionsWhat makes us laugh? Why is comedy so important? How does comedy affect our behaviour?The Psychology of Comedy provides a unique insight into the r...

• Author(s): Ford Russell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe Western philosophical tradition shows a marked fondness for tragedy. From Plato and Aristotle, through German idealism, to contemporary reflection...

• Author(s): Shannon Hengen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralFirst Published in 1998. This lively volume explores comedy as a place where gender and sexuality, through performance, challenge sexist and heteron...

• Author(s): Regina Barreca • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1988, the 19 original essays (and three "Sylvia" cartoons) included in this volume deal with the gender-specific nature of comedy...

• Author(s): Jay Sankey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyIn this engaging and disarmingly frank book, comic Jay Sankey spills the beans, explaining not only how to write and perform stand-up comedy, but how to ...

• Author(s): Gail Finney • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Gender StudiesFirst Published in 1994. Look Who's Laughing belies the notion that in a joke the only place for a woman is in the butt, Rather than analysing w...

• Author(s): Wagner-Lawlor Jennifer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis title was first published in 2000: "Comedy" and "humour" are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their ...

• Author(s): Jerry C. Jaffe • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AtheismReligious Satire in the Era of New Atheism presents a contemporary account of religious satire as evidenced by the modern art of stand-up comedy.

• Author(s): Betty Kaklamanidou • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesEasy A (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a ...

• Author(s): Dieter Mehl | Angela Stock • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWith the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires...

• Author(s): Kathryn L. Johnson | Laurie Heinemann • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesAdvanced Placement Classroom: A Midsummer Night's Dream takes students inside Shakespeare...

• Author(s): Michael Mangan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThere has been a recent renaissance in research on Shakespeare's comedies. This volume provides an excellent introduction to...

• Author(s): Roger Just • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThis book provides a comprehensive account of the Athenians' conception of women during the classical period of the fifth and fou...

• Author(s): Ken Dancyger • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Radio - GeneralBroadcast Writing (1991) looks at the tools necessary for writers to find and develop stories for radio and television. It addresses the chall...

• Author(s): Laurence Senelick • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: European - GeneralThese four Russian comedies were written during the reign of Nicholas I, a period of considerable repression and censorship. They repr...

• Author(s): Robert S. Miola • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ShakespeareThis collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

• Author(s): Henry T. F. Rhodes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CriminologyFirst published in 1937, The Criminals We Deserve asks what kind of criminals does our society deserve? Some people thought that our crime p...

• Author(s): Diana Koloini • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: European - GeneralThe book proposes a new reading of Moli�re's classical comedies, focused on a reassessment of his woman figures, who were hitherto surpris...

• Author(s): Anthony Ellis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DramaThis first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted...

• Author(s): Ramona Mosse | Anna Street • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st ...

• Author(s): Paul Einzig • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Finance - GeneralFirst published in 1933, this book looks at the key events relating to the fluctuations of sterling that surrounded the suspension of the gol...

• Author(s): Ruth Nevo • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ShakespeareFirst published in 1980. In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of ...

• Author(s): Ruth Ashbee • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Schools - Levels - SecondaryCurriculum, or the substance of what is taught, is the core business of schools, and yet little exists in the way of a theory of c...

• Author(s): Jeremy G. Butler • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesIn this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre...

• Author(s): Michele Minolli • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisNew Frontiers of Relational Thinking in Psychoanalysis aims to take the reader into the depths of their humanity, to promote...

• Author(s): Susan Capel • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ElementaryDebates in Physical Education explores major issues physical education teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It engages with establi...

• Author(s): William F. Cornell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisSelf-examination in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy provides open and intimate accounts of the experience of being in ps...