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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

Title Popular film and television comedy / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1990
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-277) and index.
English
Content 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
Series Popular Fictions Series
Extent 1 online resource (302 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010700036905171
MARC RECORDS
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