Search results for “[Subject: type-comedy]”

• Author(s): Moelwyn Merchant • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFirst published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?' In its quest for an answer it explore...

• Author(s): Robert Metcalf Smith | Howard Garrett Rhoads • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Form - Parodies""Types of Farce-Comedy"" is a book written by Robert Metcalf Smith that explores the va...

• 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): 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): Robert Metcalf Smith | Howard Garrett Rhoads • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Comedy""Types of Farce-Comedy"" is a book written by Robert Metcalf Smith that explores the different f...

• Author(s): Robert Metcalf Smith • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)"Types of Social Comedy" offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most enduring genres in dra...

• Author(s): Robert Metcalf Smith • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)"Types of Social Comedy" offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most enduring genres in dra...

• 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 the world of humor, designed for profes...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Nick Marx • 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 developing world of on...

• Author(s): Robert Metcalf Smith | Howard Garrett Rhoads • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may cont...

• 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): 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): Marsh Cassady • Publisher: Meriwether Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Meriwether Publishing • BISAC: ComedyFor big laughs, comedy relies on exaggeration, incongruity, automatism, character inconsistency, surprise, and derision. Final...

• Author(s): Robert Metcalf Smith | Howard Garrett Rhoads • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: GeneralThis is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

• 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): Rosie White • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Board GamesCan comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'fun...

• Author(s): Sam Friedman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralComedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, ...

• Author(s): Sam Friedman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralComedy and Distinction provides the first ever empirical examination of British comedy taste. Drawing on a large-scale survey a...

• 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): 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): 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): George Meredith • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: African""An Essay on Comedy"" by George Meredith is a literary work that explores the nature and purpose of comedy in literature. In...

• 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): Erich Segal • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies...

• Author(s): Diana Solomon • Publisher: University of Delaware Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Delaware Press • BISAC: DramaOften perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues - players' comic, p...

• 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): 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): Scott V. Palmer • Publisher: Cypress Hills Press • Publisher Imprint: Cypress Hills Press • BISAC: Film - ReferenceGreat Comedy Films has been written to provide a cross-section of Hollywood as well as British motion pictures dealing...

• Author(s): Helen Flanders Dunbar • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: Medieval"Symbolism in Medieval Thought and Its Consummation in the Divine Comedy" is a profound exploration of the intellectual an...