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The Art of Laurel and Hardy by Kyp Harness
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $26.14From the innocent days of young television came Laurel and Hardy, a comedy team that created slapstick hilarity from life's simplest situations. Seventy some years after their heyday, Arthur Stanley... -
New York Burlesque by Roy Kemp
RRP: $42.87SciFier: $34.77Roy Kemp's previously unpublished burlesque portfolio presents thirty-nine dancers performing in authentic clubs and backstage settings in 1950s New York. This nostalgic collection includes nearly... -
Understanding Comedy through College Comedies by Norman Kagan
SciFier: $52.25Understanding 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... -
Historic Photos of the Opry by Jim McGuire
RRP: $38.85SciFier: $28.26Called "The Mother Church of Country Music," the Ryman Auditorium saw a historic chapter come to a close in 1974 when it closed its doors on 5th Avenue to move into new quarters at Opryland USA... -
Ken Ludwig's Midsummer/Jersey by Ken Ludwig
SciFier: $22.77Midsummer/Jersey is the hilarious high-octane re-telling of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream set on the boardwalk of a seaside town in modern-day New Jersey. The story revolves around the... -
Too Many Cooks by Marcia Kash
SciFier: $20.35It'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... -
Carry Me Kate by Rachel Musgrove
SciFier: $14.32When Kate and Dave meet at their mutual friend's Tupperware party, they have no idea that the chance encounter will change the course of their lives forever. Cue a disastrous first date, a mini-break... -
Dreams from a Summerhouse by Alan Ayckbourn
SciFier: $16.21A musical which provides roles for eight actors/singers, combining the work of Alan Ayckbourn with John Pattison's fully integrated score (published separately) that ranges from the operatic to pop... -
The Seagull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
SciFier: $16.21Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573014000Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 64I -
Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Mary Simonson 9780199898039
SciFier: $46.02In the early twentieth century, female performers regularly appeared on the stages and screens of American cities. Though advertised as dancers, mimics, singers, or actresses, they often exceeded... -
Amy Schumer and Philosophy by Charlene Elsby
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.02Why read a book about Amy Schumer and philosophy? After all, Amy Schumer is primarily known as a comedian, though she is also an actor, writer, and producer. One reason is that it will be... -
The Charley Chase Talkies by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: $118.58Charley 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... -
Too Bold for the Box Office by Cynthia J. Miller
SciFier: $122.09Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order... -
Robin Dave Itzkoff 9781250214812
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $20.81Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250214812Author Dave ItzkoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint -
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy Ian Brodie 9781628461824
SciFier: $96.82In 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... -
Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror David Gillota 9781978834163
RRP: $37.51SciFier: $30.23Horror 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... -
Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour Chiara Bucaria 9781137593375
SciFier: $138.01The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and... -
Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs by Roger Clegg
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $44.88A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. With a cast of... -
The Papers of Will Rogers: The Early Years, November 1879-April 1904 Will Rogers 9780806127453
SciFier: $75.08Horses, friends, ragtime music, and steer roping-those were the interests of the youthful Will Rogers as he came of age in the Indian Territory and traveled to the Southern Hemisphere in this first... -
Comedy Tonight! by Jay Malarcher
RRP: $40.13SciFier: $30.23For centuries scholars, philosophers, and practitioners have attempted to explain just what constitutes comedy, and though no one has come close to a definitive explanation, each attempt highlights... -
Vaudeville Humor by Ed Lowry
RRP: $30.75SciFier: $19.71Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by... -
The Papers of Will Rogers: The Final Years, August 1928-August 1935 Will Rogers 9780806137681
SciFier: $74.85This fifth and final volume of The Papers of Will Rogers traces the career of Oklahoma's beloved entertainer during his most popular years and extends beyond his death in 1935. By 1928, the Oklahoma... -
The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News Amarnath Amarasingam 9780786458868
SciFier: $21.75The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted much interest in recent years from popular audiences as well as scholars in various disciplines. Both Jon Stewart and Stephen... -
The Screwball Comedy Films by Duane Byrge
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $26.14My Man Godfrey, Four's a Crowd, My Favorite Wife, The Devil and Miss Jones--for their inspired blend of slapstick humor with casual elegance and witty repartee, these movies are examples of what... -
Beyond a Joke Derek Benfield 9780573110276
SciFier: $16.21Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110276Author Derek BenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint -
Coarse Acting Strikes Back by Michael Green
SciFier: $16.21Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573100093Author Michael GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint -
Tiptoe Through the Tombstones Norman Robbins 9780573019173
SciFier: $16.21Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573019173Author Norman RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint -
Digging Up Mother by Doug Stanhope
SciFier: $19.08Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics Linda Mizejewski 9780292756915
RRP: $60.30SciFier: $50.40Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten... -
Funny As by Paul Horan
RRP: $66.93SciFier: $41.51From the Kiwi Concert Party to The Topp Twins, Billy T. James to Rose Matafeo, Fred Dagg to Flight of the Conchords, New Zealanders have made each other laugh in ways distinctive to these islands. ... -
No Laughing Matter by C. W. Marshall (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada)
SciFier: $61.63No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and... -
The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present Professor Judith Roof (Rice University, USA) 9781501354885
SciFier: $49.57The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious... -
Beginning Tap Dance Lisa Lewis 9781450411981
RRP: $44.22SciFier: $40.87Beginning Tap Dance With HKPropel Access introduces students to tap dance techniques and cultivates an appreciation of tap dance as a performing art. Focusing on novice dancers, experienced tap... -
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents Rebecca Krefting (Assistant Professor, Skidmore College) 9781421414300
SciFier: $30.81In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears... -
Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier Alan Zweibel 9781419735288
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $23.09With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, Alan Zweibel traces the history of American comedy Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to... -
Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy Neil Archer (Keele University, UK) 9781350242449
SciFier: $46.89At the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, a global audience of nearly one billion viewers were treated to the unprecedented sight of James Bond meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Shortly after,... -
Popular Performance Adam Ainsworth (Kingston University, London, UK) 9781350089686
SciFier: $50.91There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause... -
Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia by Barnaby King
SciFier: $50.91Contemporary Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia brings to light the emergence of new kinds of clowning in everyday life in Colombia, focusing particularly on the pervasive presence of clowns... -
Parody, Politics and the Populace in Greek Old Comedy Professor Donald Sells (University of Michigan, USA) 9781350166288
SciFier: $48.23This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian... -
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice: Dance and Live Art in Contemporary South Africa and Beyond Catherine Cole 9780472074587
SciFier: $97.83Unresolved pasts tend to return. In the aftermath of state-perpetrated injustice, a facade of peace can suddenly give way. In such circumstances, the voices and visions of artists can help us see...