Popular film and television comedy / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neale, Stephen.

Contributor:

Krutnik, Frank, 1956-

Series:

Popular fiction series.

Popular fictions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comedy films--History and criticism.

Comedy films.

Television comedies--History.

Television comedies.

Comic, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the nature of these forms and conventions and to relate them to their institutional contexts. They propose that all forms and modes of the comic involve deviations from aesthetic and cultural conventions and n

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Definitions, genres, and forms; 2 Comedy and narrative; 3 Gags, jokes, wisecracks, and comic events; 4 Laughter, humour, and the comic; 5 Verisimilitude; 6 Hollywood, comedy, and The Case of Silent Slapstick; 7 The comedy of the sexes; 8 Comedy, television, and variety; 9 Broadcast comedy and sit-com; Notes and References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-277) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-94685-6

1-134-94686-4

1-280-60375-5

9786610603756

0-203-13197-5

9780203131978

OCLC:

475881568