Search results for “[subject: comedy]”

• 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): Henri Bergson | Cloudesley Brereton | Fred Rothwell • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: European - French"Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic" is French philosopher Henri Bergson's treati...

• Author(s): Chris MacLean • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralIn a single day learn how to: - write killer jokes for the stage - get someone to...

• Author(s): Brian Dunbar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralComedy Films: A Teacher's Guide offers the ideal introduction for teachers of GCSE and AS/A level Film and Medi...

• 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): William Hartston • Publisher: Watkins Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Watkins Publishing • BISAC: Topic - HistoryThe first mainstream history of humour. Hilarious and well-researched, this book from household name William Hartston, a...

• Author(s): Neil Archer • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAt the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers ...

• Author(s): Terrence T. Tucker • Publisher: University Press of Florida • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida • BISAC: American - African AmericanA combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love--Terrence Tucker...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare | R.A. Foakes • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury • Subject: English LiteratureThe Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative sc...

• 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): Wylie Sypher | George Meredith | Henri Bergson • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: ComedyCasting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds t...

• Author(s): Alan Hughes • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralAlan Hughes presents a new complete account of production methods in Greek comedy. The book summarizes cont...

• Author(s): Sean Shah • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: GeneralMastering Comedy: Harnessing Humor, Jokes, Kidding, Wordplay, Puns, Lightheartedness by Nik Shah is the definitive guide to u...

• Author(s): L. J. Potts • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative, mainly in English, from Ch...

• Author(s): Allan Andrew Sidley • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Form - Puns & Wordplay"All vegetarians agree, you should never meat your gyros." Provocative. Edgy. Corny. Genius. St...

• 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): Brian Dunbar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralComedy Films: A Teacher's Guide offers the ideal introduction for teachers of GCSE and AS/A level Film and Medi...

• Author(s): J. E. Buckrose • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: ClassicsTHIS was no comedy to those most concerned, of course, for comedy is like happi...

• Author(s): Edith Hall • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThis volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient comedy - what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Ari...

• Author(s): Robert Samuels • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisThis book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how humor is shaped by unconscious social and psychological fa...

• 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): Alfie Bown • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureUsing Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new f...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Morgan • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Form - Jokes & RiddlesSchool isn't always easy, but it can always be funny.Laughter, Lessons, and Lunchtime is a lighthea...

• Author(s): Heather Hirschfeld • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: LiteraryThe Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's c...

• Author(s): Kelly Smith • Publisher: Excellent Enterprises, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Excellent Enterprises, LLC • BISAC: GeneralComedy is subjective and it's pretty much all over the board. There's clean comedy, dirty jokes, long-winded story jo...

• 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): 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): 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): Oliver Double • Publisher: Methuen Drama • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama • BISAC: ComedyIn the late 1970s, the alternative comedy scene exploded into life in Britain and completely changed the style, subject matter and politics of...

• Author(s): Leah Dennison • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: JournalismDoctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Communications - Journalism, Journalism Professions, grade: 2.1, Bournemouth ...

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

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

• Author(s): Christopher Beach • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismExamining the evolution of American film comedy since the beginning of the sound era (c....

• Author(s): David Bruce • Publisher: David Bruce • Publisher Imprint: David Bruce • BISAC: Form - Anecdotes & QuotationsThis is a short, quick, and easy read.Some Sample Anecdotes: - While studying theater at UCLA, Carol Burnett took a cours...