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• Author(s): Andrew Stott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Books & ReadingThis new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as...

• Author(s): Sam Friedman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralComedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, ...

• 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): Jonathan Lyons • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: DigitalWhile comedy writers are responsible for creating clever scripts, comedic animators have a much mor...

• Author(s): Andrew McConnell Stott • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Rout India • Subject: English LiteratureWhat is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques...

• Author(s): Morris | Julie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryQuestioning society and one's place in it is a common theme in both comedy and so...

• 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): Aparna Gollapudi • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - GeneralIn the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist em...

• Author(s): Tucker | Patrick • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareOpening up a new window to see Shakespeare's words in a different light and gathering his intentions ...

• Author(s): Kenneth Muir • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ShakespeareFirst published in 1957. This book finds discovers what the sources to Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies really were, considers the ...

• Author(s): Moelwyn Merchant • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • 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 explore...

• Author(s): Cate Watson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ResearchWhile there have been many sociological and psychological studies of humor, few can claim to be funny. Humor may be regarded as a legitimat...

• Author(s): Inger-Lise Kalvikne Bore • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesThe question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debat...

• 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): Ian Wilkie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyThe Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the dec...

• Author(s): Athene Seyler • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - General"a work on the art and craft of comedy as important in its own way as works by Stanislavski and Chekhov" - Oxford Theatre Compan...

• Author(s): Tom Paulus • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many ...

• 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): Ian Wilkie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyIan Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performanc...

• Author(s): Robin L. Murray • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesThis book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concern...

• 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): 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): Simon Weaver • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralSince 2016 there has been an outpouring of humour, comedy and satire on the United Kingdom's EU Referendum and decision to leav...

• 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): I.Q. Hunter • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBritish comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably...

• 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): John Montgomery • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesOriginally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us ...

• Author(s): Regina Barreca • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1992, the twenty-one original essays in this volume explore the way women have used humor to break down cultural stere...

• Author(s): Liz Giuffre • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Instruction & Study - TheoryThe study of television and music has expanded greatly in recent years, yet to date no book has focused on the genr...

• Author(s): Matt Fotis • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Topic - PoliticsSatire & The State focuses on performance-based satire, most often seen in sketch comedy, from 1960 to the present, and explores...

• Author(s): Arpad Szakolczai • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion ...

• 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): Alex Symons • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyThis book offers a thorough examination of digital work by women comedians in the US, exploring their use of digital media to perform jokes, ...