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• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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 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. 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Sandra Hosking • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)Give your audience the medicine of laughter with this quirky and witty collection of 10-minute pl...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Jamila M. H. Mascat • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Theater - GeneralWhat is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake ...

• 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): 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): 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): Rossiter Johnson • Publisher: Hansebooks • Publisher Imprint: Hansebooks • BISAC: GeneralComedy is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas su...

• 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): Oliver Double • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back Cover"Sharon Lockyer and Oliver Double have succeeded in painting a vibrant picture of the raw and energetic origins of the alte...

• Author(s): Shaun May • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: ComedyAs far as we know, only human beings have a sense of humour - although chimps might laugh when tickled, and dogs respond 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): Arthur Asa Berger • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Transaction Publishers • BISAC: ComedyJust as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific asp...

• 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): 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...