Search results for “[Subject: television-genres-comedy]”

• Author(s): Frank Krutnik • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesSteve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length nar...

• Author(s): Antonio Savorelli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This book explores the mechanisms that have driven the evolution of televisual comedy from the classic ...

• Author(s): Jackson Upperco • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Comedy With a unique definition of the classic situation comedy television genre as developed out of its...

• 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): Nicholas Laham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book analyzes the evolution of film and television comedy from the 1930s through the present, defining five...

• Author(s): Mark A. Robinson • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFrom I Love Lucy to Will & Grace, this book looks at the tele...

• Author(s): Barry Putterman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Television comedy traces its roots to vaudeville, radio and film, from which it developed its own unique ...

• Author(s): Holly Willson Holladay | Chandler L. Classen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television - Direction & ProductionTelevision Sitcom and Cultural Crisis demonstrates that television comedies are condui...

• Author(s): Mark A. Robinson • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFrom I Love Lucy to Will & Grace, this book looks at the tele...

• Author(s): Holly Willson Holladay • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesThis volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking abo...

• Author(s): Brian Cooke • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • 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...

• Author(s): Stephen Freestone • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismA guide looking at the british Situation Comedy - its history, its form and a look at a ...

• Author(s): Doyle Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This work examines the unique and ever-changing relationship between politics and comedy through an analysis...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work...

• 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): Mary Irwin • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyThis is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre, Mary Irwin builds o...

• 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): Andrew Parry • Publisher: Andrew Parry • Publisher Imprint: Andrew Parry • BISAC: Television - Direction & ProductionTelevision Sitcom: Write and Create a Comedy Show for Television The Ultimate Guide for Screenwriters and Direct...

• Author(s): David Diffrient • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismContradictory to its core, the sitcom--an ostensibly conservative, tranquilizing genre...

• Author(s): Mary Irwin • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyThis book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s. It...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Created around the world and available only on the web, Internet "television" series are ...

• Author(s): Richard Irvin • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismDo you remember seeing an episode of Bewitched that guest starred comedian Red Skelton, or The Honeymooner's...

• Author(s): Mitchell E. Shapiro | Tom Jicha • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism A number of books and articles have been written ranking the best situati...

• Author(s): Lynn C. Spangler • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Television - GeneralFor more than 50 years, television situation comedy has been inspiring laughter while reflecting American culture in unique and often fas...

• Author(s): David Diffrient • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismContradictory to its core, the sitcom--an ostensibly conservative, tranquilizing genre...

• Author(s): John Mundy • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsFrom the Back CoverLaughing Matters is an undergraduate level textbook taking an analytic approa...

• Author(s): Brett Mills | Erica Horton • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesWhat is it like to make television comedy? How do writers get their ideas made, and how do commissioners and producers decide what...

• Author(s): Victoria Sturtevant • Publisher: University of Texas Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism2025 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular Culture Association/Ame...

• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy The Ritz Brothers were a popular comedy trio in vaudeville, nightclubs, movies and television for more than...

• Author(s): Richard Irvin • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismDo you remember seeing an episode of Bewitched that guest starred comedian Red Skelton, or The Honeymooner's...

• 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): 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): Darrell Y. Hamamoto • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: GeneralNervous Laughter examines 40 years of situation comedy, decade by decade, providing the first truly panoramic view of TV's mo...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air today, but ...

• Author(s): Darrell Y. Hamamoto • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralCritically analyzing four decades of television situation comedies from The Honeymooners to The Bill Cosby Show, Hamamoto shows how the sitcom refl...

• Author(s): Nick Marx • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: ComedyIn Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Nick Marx examines some of the genre's most memorable--and...