Search results for “[subject: comedy]”

• Author(s): G. Cavaliero • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThis is the only contemporary critical study to discuss the nature of comedy with exclusive reference to novels. It examines th...

• 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): 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): 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): David Roberts • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismFrom the Back Cover"This insightful book tells a neglected story: the history of RSC's Restoration productions. It ...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Juergen Kamm • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThis collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to...

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

• 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): 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): 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): Ofer Feldman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General

• 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): J. Archer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ShakespeareShakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London 'freemen' and their wives,...

• Author(s): Ofer Feldman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis collection of original chapters reflects the increasing interest over the past few decades in the relationship between political...

• Author(s): Louise Lee • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFrom the Back Cover'A sparkling collection -- at once authoritative and intrepid. Louise Lee has assembled a remarkable ...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Chiara Bucaria • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverThe essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted...

• Author(s): Claire Sedgwick • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverThis Pivot explores the cultural economy of comedy in the UK, looking specifically at the links between industry practice...

• Author(s): Helen Davies • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Popular CultureFrom the Back CoverThis edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humor...

• Author(s): Wheeler Winston Dixon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GeneralFocusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety o...

• 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): 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): 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...