Search results for “[subject: comedy]”

• Author(s): Alan Bilton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a f...

• Author(s): David Farley-Hills • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - General

• Author(s): D. Nikulin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Mind & BodyComedy, Seriously provides a philosophical interpretation of comedy and argues that comedy displays a particular kind of rationality tha...

• Author(s): S. Marsh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismPopular Spanish Film Under Franco is the first book of its kind to analyze cinematic comedy during the initial two decades ...

• Author(s): Patrice A. Oppliger • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverThis book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of ...

• Author(s): Jamila M. H. Mascat • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - GeneralWhat is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake ...

• Author(s): Oliver Double • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back Cover"Sharon Lockyer and Oliver Double have succeeded in painting a vibrant picture of the raw and energetic origins of the alte...

• Author(s): L. Peacock • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSlapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in whic...

• Author(s): Natalie Fullwood • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCommedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utiliz...

• Author(s): Nicholas Holm • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - Genres - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh bu...

• Author(s): L. Platt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Genres & Styles - MusicalsThis book offers the first full historical treatment of a music theatre that was once at the centre of London's West End. F...

• Author(s): Mary Irwin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverThis book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the ...

• Author(s): Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: AestheticsPhilosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be r...

• Author(s): S. Colleary • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyOne of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular ...

• Author(s): Amir Khan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - Genres - GeneralFrom the Back CoverAmir Khan's eloquent voice and discerning mind take his reader on an exhilarating and provocative journey thro...

• Author(s): Lydia L. Moland • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: AestheticsFrom the Back CoverThis book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduc...

• Author(s): Emilio Audissino • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralThis handbook tackles the understudied relationship between music and comedy cinema by analysing the nature, perception, and function of m...

• Author(s): A. Dagnes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismConservative critics argue that modern political satire, in the age of The Daily Show, has a liberal...

• Author(s): W. Demastes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - PlaywritingComedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to surv...

• Author(s): Richard Wallace • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - Genres - DocumentaryFrom the Back CoverThis book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary f...

• Author(s): R. Lanzoni • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrench comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural refere...

• Author(s): J. Whalley • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismSaturday Night Live, Hollywood Comedy, and American Culture sheds new light on the ways in which Saturday Night Liv...

• Author(s): Kavyta Kay • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Popular CultureFrom the Back CoverThis book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affect...

• Author(s): Artur Skweres • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Film - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expand...

• Author(s): Stephen Glynn • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"Stephen Glynn is the authority on sport in British cinema, and The British Boxing Film is a very welcome addition ...

• Author(s): Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverVideo Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video ga...

• Author(s): B. Dziemidok • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesThe problem of the comical is one of the most interesting issues in aesthetics. Its significance extends well beyond...

• Author(s): Richard Gallagher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book presents extensive research into the cinematic representation of the British-identifying Protestant, ...

• Author(s): Conal Condren • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverThis book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for gr...

• Author(s): Patricia Flanagan Behrendt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyThis study explores the relationship between Wilde's treatment of sexual subject matter and the development of his...

• Author(s): Patrick Swinden • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Shakespeare

• Author(s): K. Heavey • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who ...

• Author(s): J. Hart • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ShakespeareThis book is concerned with language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative and examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context...

• Author(s): M. Anderson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England ...

• Author(s): Stephen Hamrick • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverContextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own hist...