| Description |
xiv, 322 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'At ease, corporal' : social class and the situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to the 1990s / Stephen Wagg -- The Lancashire shaman : Frank Randle and Mancunian films / C.P. Lee -- Butterflies and caustic asides : housewives, comedy and the feminist movement / Maggie Andrews -- Tarts, tampons and tyrants : women and representation in British comedy / Laraine Porter -- Certain liberties have taken with Cleopatra : female performance in the Carry on films / Frances Gray -- Punching your weight : conversations with Jo Brand / Stephen Wagg -- The straight men of comedy / Mark Simpson -- Suits and sequins : lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the 1990s / Frances Williams -- 'Yeah, and I used to be a hunchback' : immigrants, humour and the Marx brothers / C.P. Lee -- 'Where everybody knows your name' : open convictions and closed contexts in the American situation comedy / Paul Wells -- Cringe and strut : comedy and national identity in post-war Australia / John McCallum -- 'Serious t'ing' : the black comedy circuit in England / Stephen Small -- 'They already got a comedian for governor' : comedians and politics in the United States and Great Britain / Stephen Wagg -- VIZ : gender, class and taboo / Dave Huxley -- Heard the one about the white middle-class heterosexual father-in-law? : gender, ethnicity and political correctness in comedy / Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering. |
| Subject |
Television comedies -- History and criticism.
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Television comedies. |
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Comedy films -- History and criticism.
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Comedy films. |
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Comedy.
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Comedy. |
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Comic, The.
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Comic, The. |
| Added Author |
Wagg, Stephen.
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| ISBN |
0415129206 hardback |
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9780415129206 hardback |
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0415129214 paperback |
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9780415129213 paperback |
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