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): Andy Medhurst • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyComedy is crucial to how the English see themselves. This book considers that proposition through a series of case studies of popular English comedies...

• Author(s): Moelwyn Merchant • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFirst published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?' In its quest for an answer it explores critical ...

• 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 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): 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): 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): 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): Martin G Neil • 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 ro...

• 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): Neil Rhodes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical...

• 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): George E. C. Paton | Chris Powell | Stephen Wagg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureFirst published in 1996, this volume is a sequel to Humour in Society: Resistance and Control which was ed...

• 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): Brian Gibbons • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedi...

• Author(s): Alison Ross • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableThe Language of Humour: * examines the importance of the social context for humour* explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as t...

• Author(s): Lynch Kathleen M. • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DramaPublished in 1967: This book is a historical account of comedy during the Restoration period in England. It discusses Comedy from Jonson to Shirley...

• 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): Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor • 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): Maria Grazia Turri | Bridget Escolme • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ShakespeareLaughter, Power, and the Unconscious offers paradigm-breaking insights into the psychological and sociopolitical dimension...

• 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): 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 AComedy of Errors. Miola's edi...

• Author(s): Brett Mills | Erica Horton • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesWhat is it like to make television comedy? How do writers get their ideas made, and how do commissioners and producers decide what...

• Author(s): Rick Bowers • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshDrawing on the generic and mythic strength of comedy and the theories of Bakhtin, Bergson, and Hobbes, this book ide...

• 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): Patrick Tucker • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ShakespeareOpening up a new window to see Shakespeare's words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents ...

• 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): 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): Jacob Blakesley | Theodore J. Cachey Jr | Federica Pich • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Translating & InterpretingThis collection brings together leading and emerging scholars across Dante studies a...

• 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...