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): Jacques Berlinerblau • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Topic - Politics

• Author(s): Jennalee Donian • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThis book contextualizes contemporary stand-up comedy within the wider socio-political terrain of neoliberal cap...

• 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): Louis Reznick • Publisher: Outskirts Press • Publisher Imprint: Outskirts Press • BISAC: Topic - AdultLouis Reznick knows the curative value of laughter. Sure, it can be dangerous, too-for example, he just about laughed himself to de...

• Author(s): Beaumont and Fletcher • Publisher: Outlook Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Outlook Verlag • BISAC: LiteraryReproduction of the original: The Loyal Subject, a Tragi-Comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher

• Author(s): Chilana | Richa • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverThis book, first of its kind in the Indian context, brings together both a theoretical un...

• 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): Jonathan Gray | Jeffrey P. Jones | Ethan Thompson • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismA fascinating look into what happens when comedy bec...

• Author(s): Mario Telò • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalRoman Comedy against the Subject provides an expansive interpretation of four Roman comedies named...

• 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): Judith Roof • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Media StudiesThe Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gatherin...

• Author(s): Trav Trav S. D. | Austin Pendleton • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - Genres - ComedyThe Marx Brothers are widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest comedy team, a tight knit perfor...

• 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): Kristen Anderson Wagner • Publisher: Wayne State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Wayne State University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFor many people the term "silent comedy" conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin...

• Author(s): J. Ahluwalia • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureRestoration Comedy has been attacked from different quarters for its immorality and profaneness. Eighteenth Century Comedy is very much the...

• Author(s): Maggie Hennefeld • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWomen explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists pla...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 a...

• Author(s): W. Moseley Kerby • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we...

• Author(s): Rosie White • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Board GamesCan comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'fun...

• Author(s): Gwendolyn Compton-Engle • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThis book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of t...

• Author(s): Ervin Malakaj | Alena E. Lyons • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: DramaDespite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concent...

• Author(s): Evgeny Dobrenko | Natalia Jonsson-Skradol • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralStalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (...

• Author(s): Sarbani Putatunda • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureAccording to the social historians of England, after the economic and religious unrest of the middle Tudor period, the freedom preache...

• Author(s): J. F. Jünger • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "JÜNGER: KOMISCHES THEATER BD. 1 JKTH" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Aparna Gollapudi • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform o...

• 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): Jeremy G. Butler • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesIn this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzin...

• Author(s): William Congreve • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Author(s): Heinz-Günther Nesselrath • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die attische Mittlere Komödie" verfügbar.

• Author(s): James Melville Janson • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralThe Encyclopedia of Comedy by James Melville Janson is a comprehensive guide to humorous literature that is designed fo...

• Author(s): Iain Spragg • Publisher: Sona Books • Publisher Imprint: Sona Books • BISAC: Topic - Celebrity & Popular CultureThe Wit and Wisdom of Dad's Army is packed with amusing quotes from the TV show, including many classic one-liners fr...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Topic - Men, Women & RelationshipsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the kn...

• Author(s): Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais | Ernest Felix Langley • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousLe Mariage De Figaro: Comedie En Cinq Actes, En Prose ...

• Author(s): Terence • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it....

• Author(s): John H. Long • Publisher: Hassell Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hassell Street Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge bas...