The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Hardbound - 2018)
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The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an "event" that triggers, by virtue of a "cut," an expected/unexpected resolution.
Using examples from mainstream comedy, The Comic Event progresses from the smallest comic moment-jokes, bits-to the more complex-caricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise "Laughter," Sigmund Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering event that resolves with a "cut," Roof characterizes comedy not only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden expected/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality, self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and aspects of performance in multiple contexts.ISBN13 | 9781501335723 |
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Product Name | The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Hardbound - 2018) |
Price | ₹12,528.00 |
Original Price | GBP 120.00 |
Author | Judith Roof |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publication Year | 2018 |
Subject | Music, Theatre & Films |
Binding | Hardbound |
Language | English |
Pages | 256 |
Weight | 0.477000 |
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