Popular film and television comedy /

Neale, Stephen.

Popular film and television comedy / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1990. - 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages). - Popular fictions series . - Popular fiction series. .

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

Definitions, genres, and forms -- Comedy and narrative -- Gags, jokes, wisecracks, and comic events -- Laughter, humor, and the comic -- Verisimilitude -- Hollywood, comedy, and the case of silent slapstick -- The comedy of the sexes -- Comedy, television, and variety -- Broadcast comedy and sit-com.

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"How is comedy related to its institutional context? Neale and Krutnik, in this wide-ranging discussion of the genre, propose that comedy always involves deviation from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms"--Publisher description.


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Comedy films--History and criticism.
Television comedies--History.
Comic, The.
Films comiques--Histoire et critique.
Émissions comiques--Histoire.
Télévision--Émissions comiques--Histoire.
Comique.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
Comedy films.
Comic, The.
Television comedies.
Komische films.
Humor (grappigheden)
Televisie.
Filmkomödie
Fernsehkomödie
Film.

Cinema films: Comedies Television programmes: Comedies


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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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PN1995.9.C55 / N44 1990eb

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