Search results for “[Subject: comedy]”

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

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Nick Marx | Matt Sienkiewicz • Publisher: University of Texas Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press • BISAC: Film - Genres - ComedyFrom classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the dev...

• 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): 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): 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): Peter C. Kunze | William V. Costanzo • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Film - Genres - ComedyThe Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy offers a rich sampling of the most current res...

• 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): 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): B. H. Bronson | John F. Ross | And Others • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: General""Studies in the Comic"" by B.H. Bronson is a comprehensive exploration of the comic genre. The boo...

• 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): 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): 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): Chris Head • Publisher: Methuen Drama • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama • BISAC: ComedyThis accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of to...

• 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): Charles Mills 1858-1932 Gayley | Alwin 1891- Thaler • Publisher: Wentworth Press • Publisher Imprint: Wentworth Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge...

• 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): Howexpert • Publisher: Howexpert • Publisher Imprint: Howexpert • BISAC: Form - Jokes & RiddlesIf you've ever dreamed of making people laugh and captivating audiences with your unique brand of humor, then "HowExpert Guide to Stan...

• 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): Magda Romanska • Publisher: Methuen Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Publishing • BISAC: ComedyThis unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquit...

• Author(s): Jj Barrows • Publisher: Punchline Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Punchline Publishers • BISAC: Form - EssaysIn KINDA FUNNY: Stories by a Full-Time Comedian (with Four Part-Time Jobs), JJ Barrows brings her stories from the comedy st...

• Author(s): Charles Mills 1858-1932 Gayley | Alwin 1891- Thaler • Publisher: Wentworth Press • Publisher Imprint: Wentworth Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge...

• 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...

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: GeneralThis 11-volume collection contains titles originally published between 1931 and 1992. It examines the genre of comedy, from its roots in ancient ...

• Author(s): Charles Mills Gayley | Alwin Thaler • Publisher: Arkose Press • Publisher Imprint: Arkose Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization ...

• Author(s): Bruce Charlie Johnson • Publisher: Charlie's Creative Comedy • Publisher Imprint: Charlie's Creative Comedy • BISAC: PerformanceThis comprehensive comedy course will aid you in entertaining family audiences by increasing the humor in...

• Author(s): Alex Clayton • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismUses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor wor...

• 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): Amy Solomon • Publisher: Harper • Publisher Imprint: Harper • BISAC: Form - EssaysA collection of never-before-seen humor pieces--essays, satire, short stories, poetry, cartoons, artwork, and more--from more than 150 of the biggest f...

• Author(s): Charles Mills 1858-1932 Gayley | Alwin 1891- Thaler • Publisher: Wentworth Press • Publisher Imprint: Wentworth Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge...