| Description |
1 online resource (326 pages) |
| Contents |
Volume introduction : comedy as theory, industry, and academic discipline -- The carnivalesque -- Comedy mechanics & absurdity -- Psychoanalyzing comedy -- Irony -- Genre -- Race & ethnicity -- Gender & sexuality -- Nation & globalization. |
| Summary |
From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and approaches for studying comedic media--the carnivalesque, comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field--first, comedy's development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the present as a "comedy zeitgeist"; and second, comedy studies' new focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in "serious" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Television comedies -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- 20th century.
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Comedy -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Comedy -- History -- 20th century.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. |
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Comedy. |
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Comedy films. |
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Comedy -- Social aspects. |
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Motion pictures. |
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Popular culture. |
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Television comedies. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Marx, Nick, editor.
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Sienkiewicz, Matt, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Marx, Nick. Comedy Studies Reader. Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2018 9781477315996 |
| ISBN |
1477316019 |
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9781477316016 (electronic bk.) |
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9781477315996 |
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1477315993 |
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9781477316009 |
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1477316000 |
| Sudoc No. |
Z UA380.8 C734 |
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