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A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Ted Gournelos 9781617030062
RRP: €129.71€121.37A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from... -
Understanding Comedy through College Comedies Norman Kagan 9780761870623
RRP: €42.84€38.66Understanding Comedy through College Comedies explains the nature of comedy through the study of college comedy films, including classics (College, The Freshman); romantic/screwball comedies (Where the Boys Are, Ball of Fire, Sterile Cuckoo); famous... -
Too Many Cooks Marcia Kash 9780573700507
€16.65It's 1932 in Niagara Falls, Canada, where the rum-running business is at its peak. In the aftermath of the Crash, Irving Bubbalowe and his daughter, Honey, have risked everything they have to open a new gourmet restaurant. When their star - the renowned... -
The Charley Chase Talkies: 1929-1940 James L. Neibaur 9780810891616
RRP: €99.96€88.64Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charles Parrott. Chase then joined Mack Sennett's Keystone studio in 1914, costarring in early films of Charlie... -
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy Ian Brodie 9781628461824
€120.77In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study... -
Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror David Gillota 9781978834163
RRP: €33.31€29.62Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also garner plenty of laughs. In fact, there is a long tradition of horror directors who are fluent in humor, from James Whale to John Landis to Jordan Peele. So how might horror and humor overlap... -
Performing in Comedy: A Student's Guide Ian Wilkie (University of London Institute for Education) 9781138913875
RRP: €160.65€140.60Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performance choices and improvised moments can work in conjunction with texts themselves, Performing in Comedy offers an... -
Screen Comedy and Online Audiences Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore 9781138780668
RRP: €160.65€140.60The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use to judge films and TV shows that are meant to be... -
Provocation in Popular Culture Bim Mason (Circomedia, UK) 9781138852495
RRP: €160.65€140.60What role can provocation play in the process of renewal, both of individuals and of societies? Provocation in Popular Culture is an investigation into the practice of specific provocateurs and the wider nature of cultural provocation, examining, among... -
Acting Comedy Christopher Olsen 9781138891401
RRP: €160.65€140.60Despite being roundly cited as much harder to perform than its dramatic counterpart, comic acting is traditionally seen as a performance genre that can't be taught. At best it is often described as a skill that can only be learned "on the job" through... -
British Comedy Cinema I.Q. Hunter 9780415666657
RRP: €160.65€140.60British 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 rich... -
Creating Solo Performance Sean Bruno 9780415719988
RRP: €160.65€139.04Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a... -
The Three Stooges Scrapbook Jeff Lenburg 9781613740743
RRP: €33.31€25.80For more than 50 years-in 200 comedy shorts, 25 feature films, and thousands of television, onstage, and personal appearances-The Three Stooges dished out their classic comedy mayhem to the delight of audiences of all ages around the world. And for the... -
Clowns: In Conversation David Bridel 9781032065649
RRP: €160.65€140.60Unparalleled insights from some of the world's foremost practitioners of clowning.The Origins/Influences/Technique/Philosophy structure allows direct comparisons between varied figures.An opening history of clowning puts the interviews and their findings... -
Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest in Quarantine Times Kendra Capece 9781032071947
RRP: €160.65€141.07performance theory, art and public policy, art and social justice, global catastrophes and local actionsAbout the AuthorKendra Claire Capece is a New York-based writer and researcher with special interest in high-impact work that exposes injustice... -
Machine-Age Comedy Michael North 9780195381221
RRP: €151.73€135.05In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
€130.89Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and examining the relationship... -
Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals Jared N. Champion 9781496835482
RRP: €129.71€120.77Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin... -
Comedy in Crises: Weaponising Humour in Contemporary Art Chrisoula Lionis 9783031189609
RRP: €142.79€130.89Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse contemporary art contexts. Drawing together research by artists,... -
Just Stand Up: A Tribute to Black Comedians Eric Reese 9781979392303
RRP: €14.27€13.55Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781979392303Author Eric ReeseFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...