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

• Author(s): Larry Langman | Paul Gold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a stapl...

• Author(s): Amanda Konkle • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: Television - Genres - DramaWith an off-putting title and a decidedly retrograde premise, the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ...

• Author(s): I.Q. Hunter • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: RoutledgeBritish comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Since the early days of film noir, hundreds of television programs--including pilots, series and anthol...

• Author(s): Julian Sturgis • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralComedy Sketches: For Two And Three Characters is a book written by Julian Sturgis and published in 1902. The book is a collect...

• Author(s): Jeffrey P. Jones • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Television - GeneralIn this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Je...

• Author(s): Michael Z Newman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismLegitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining ...

• Author(s): Alfie Bown • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesNot so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-ta...

• 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): Judy Kutulas • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Media StudiesThis work considers the evolution of American notions of motherhood through sitcoms, examining depictions of "good" and "bad" mother...

• Author(s): Vin, Jr. Morreale • Publisher: Academy Arts Press • Publisher Imprint: Academy Arts Press • BISAC: GeneralFor the past fifty years, ALL MY PASSIONS has been a fixture of daytime television. But like its toothless and toupee'd leading...

• Author(s): David Leonard • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Television - GeneralA comprehensive look at the history of African Americans on television that discusses major trends in black TV and examines the broader soci...

• Author(s): Aristophanes • 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 kno...

• Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverThe 'Moments in Television' collections celebrate the power and artistry of television and ...

• Author(s): Sienna Camden • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Performing Arts - Television & RadioBook DescriptionBehind the spotlight of modern late-night entertainment lies a long, dem...

• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to ...

• Author(s): Lewis Beach • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralLet's Get Married is a farce-comedy play written by Lewis Beach and originally published in 1916. The play follows the story of a...

• 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): Stephen Tropiano • Publisher: Applause Books • Publisher Imprint: Applause Books • BISAC: Television - ReferenceTelevision history was made on Saturday, October 11, 1975, at 11:30pm (ET), when Chevy Chase welcomed America to the firs...

• Author(s): John Stanley • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Film - GeneralJourney into a world of comedy featuring some of the best comedians and comediennes of a different time and place. Dozens of encoun...

• Author(s): Amanda Konkle | Charles Burnetts | David Diffrient • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: Television - Genres - DramaWith an off-putting title and a decidedly retrograde premise...

• Author(s): Charles Mills Gayley | Alwin Thaler • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurre...

• Author(s): William Douglas • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ActivitiesThis volume examines the analysis that was designed to map the development of the television family and assess its current state and, at the sam...

• Author(s): Joe Nazzaro • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Television - Genres - ComedyIn the winter of 1993, American journalist Joe Nazzaro was commissioned by the producers of Red Dwarf to write a behin...

• Author(s): Andrew Horton • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ d...

• Author(s): William Douglas • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ActivitiesThis volume examines the analysis that was designed to map the development of the television family and assess its current state and, at the sam...

• Author(s): Brooks 1894-1984 Atkinson | William 1640-1716 Countr Wycherley | William 1670-1729 Way of Congreve • Publisher: Hassell Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hassell Street Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis wo...

• Author(s): Gerst And D Lee Gerst and Don P. Haynes • Publisher: iUniverse • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralJOHNNY returns in the third and final season of the hilarious, dark comedy, D.N.R. SEASON THREE brings you back ...

• Author(s): Vince Waldron • Publisher: Chicago Review Press • Publisher Imprint: Chicago Review Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThe most acclaimed comedy of TV's golden age comes to life in The Official Dick Van Dyke Show Book. The only authoriz...

• Author(s): Goodwin Andrew | Garry Whannel • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television & VideoUnderstanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres....

• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military come...

• Author(s): Stephen Wagg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureBecause I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexual...

• Author(s): Claire Mortimer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesRomantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy t...

• Author(s): Michael Z Newman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismLegitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining ...

• Author(s): Claire Mortimer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesRomantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy t...

• Author(s): Hunter Hargraves • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFrom The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audien...