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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Popular fiction seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203131975
  • 9780203131978
  • 9786610603756
  • 6610603758
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Popular film and television comedy.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/617 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C55 N44 1990eb
Other classification:
  • 24.39
  • 24.34
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: "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.
Holdings
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-277) and index.

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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.

"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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