This is the first book-length study of The Golden Girls, which ran for seven award-winning seasons from 1985-1992 and produced two spin-offs. Offering fresh insights into its cross-generational and cross-cultural appeal, Down the Road and Back Again...Lasīt vairāk
Religious Satire in the Era of New Atheism presents a contemporary account of religious satire as evidenced by the modern art of stand-up comedy....Lasīt vairāk
Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises....Lasīt vairāk
Contemporary Farce on the Global Stage provides audiences and practitioners a detailed survey of how the genre of farce has evolved in the twenty-first century....Lasīt vairāk
Writing Comedy for Television (1983) is a practical, step-by-step manual about how and what to write. It contains many examples from the scripts of various sitcoms and sketch shows. It demonstrates how to construct a storyline for a series, how to l...Lasīt vairāk
The volume offers an in-depth exploration of the entanglements of film, theatre, literature, TV, the Internet, etc., within the framework of transmediality and their influence on the practice of translating humour....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Dec-2022, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003352808)
Punching Up explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginali...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1978, Jeff Nuttalls account of Frank Randle is both a portrait of a very, very, funny man and the story of his own search as he pieced that portrait together by talking to Randles acquaintances, friends, colleagues and relati...Lasīt vairāk
In what ways is comedy subversive? By viewing comedy as both a constitutive feature of social interaction and as a necessary requirement in the appraisal of what is often deemed to be politically correct, this book provides an innovative and multidi...Lasīt vairāk
Isnt That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor the cleverness account according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness. This volume asks whether there are limits to what can be said in dealing with a h...Lasīt vairāk
Satire & The State focuses on performance-based satire, most often seen in sketch comedy, from 1960 to the present, and explores how sketch comedy has shaped the way Americans view the president and themselves....Lasīt vairāk
The Comedy Improv Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance is a one-stop resource for both improv teachers and students, covering improv history, theory, maxims, exercises, games, and structures...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Commedia dellArte is a wide-ranging volume written by over 50 experts, that traces the history, characteristics, and development of this fascinating yet elusive theatre form....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Nov-2012, Izdevniecība: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781118327821)
This wide-ranging celebration of the variety and complexity of international film comedy covers work from the days of silent movies to the present on a global scale, including Europe, the Middle East and Asia as well as the United States....Lasīt vairāk
British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history. This edited volume will offer the first comprehensive account of the...Lasīt vairāk
