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• Author(s): Brad Ashton • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralThe book that's smiles ahead because it actually sets the gags in workable routines with additional gags to mix and match. Its myriad of merry quips will...

• 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): Matthew Bevis • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: HumorTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and...

• Author(s): Oliver Double • Publisher: Methuen Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Publishing • BISAC: Comedy'This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers. It's too enjoyable. But that, given its subject, i...

• Author(s): Vladimir Propp | Jean-Patrick Debbèche | Paul J. Perron • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAn extensive investigation of the forms and functions of...

• 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): Martin G Neil • 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 ro...

• Author(s): Jerry Palmer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureFirst published in 1993. When do we laugh? Why do we laugh? What makes us stop? What does 'humour' consist of? Listen to any everyday conversa...

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

• Author(s): Gordon Atlas • Publisher: Laughing Stock Books • Publisher Imprint: Laughing Stock Books • BISAC: Film - Genres - ComedyWhat's All the Laughing About?What makes a joke or a story funny? Inside Humor takes you on a journey through a w...

• Author(s): Andrew Horton • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not rece...

• Author(s): Hans S. Reiss | W. E. Yates | Peter Hutchinson • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: European - GeneralPublic demand for comedy has alwa...

• Author(s): Don Nilsen • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: GeneralWho says you can't have a serious reference work on humor? This new resource offers a broad look at humor with more than 100 well-written and entertaini...

• Author(s): Steven Gimbel • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsIsn't That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor - the cleverness account - according to which humor is intentional cons...

• Author(s): Evan Esar • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: Humor The Humor of Humor is much more than a pleasurable experience to read. By turns hilarious and illuminating, it is a revoluti...

• Author(s): Jay Sankey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyIn this engaging and disarmingly frank book, comic Jay Sankey spills the beans, explaining not only how to write and perform stand-up comedy, but how to ...

• 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): 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): Lawrence E. Mintz • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: GeneralThis comprehensive survey of sources and scholarship should prove invaluable to anyone organizing a course in American humor, and to ...

• Author(s): Don L. F. Nilsen | Alleen Pace Nilsen • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralMuch of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, ...

• Author(s): Stephen Hoover • Publisher: Stephen Hoover • Publisher Imprint: Stephen Hoover • BISAC: Form - Parodies++ THE #1 SELLING BOOK ON COMEDY WRITING ON AMAZON ++ Comprehensive guide for comedy writing. Along with a history of comedy and t...

• Author(s): Almut Fries | Dimitrios Kanellakis • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThis volume, in honour of Angus M. Bowie, collects seventeen original essays on Greek comedy. Its contributors t...

• Author(s): Neil Archer • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAt the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion ...

• Author(s): Huw Marsh • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature a...

• Author(s): Mirco Steder • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: GeneralBachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Christian-A...

• Author(s): Sally Holloway • Publisher: Bookshaker • Publisher Imprint: Bookshaker • BISAC: Form - Comic Strips & CartoonsHow To Write Jokes for Fun & Profit This comprehensive joke writing masterclass has been devised for beginners and ...

• Author(s): Agnes Heller • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: ComedyImmortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had writte...

• Author(s): William V. Costanzo • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWhen the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and cult...

• Author(s): Sommerstein • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalFrom the Back CoverAvailable online or as a 3-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy is a compreh...

• Author(s): B. Dziemidok • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesThe problem of the comical is one of the most interesting issues in aesthetics. Its significance extends well beyond...

• 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): Jonathan Lyons • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: DigitalWhile comedy writers are responsible for creating clever scripts, comedic animators have a much mor...

• 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): J. L. Styan | Styan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralMuch of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not...

• 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): 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...