Comedy

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500373405Author Robin CalvertFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499297089Author Robin CalvertFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A 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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495499814Author Aaron FraleFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998288413Author Gunnar Todd RohrbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Warfox PublicationsPublisher Warfox PublicationsSeries Volume 2Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998288406Author Gunnar Todd RohrbacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Warfox PublicationsPublisher Warfox PublicationsSeries Volume 1Weight(grams)...

This lighthearted and eye-opening book explores the role of comedy in cultural and political critiques of American society from the past century. This unprecedented look at the history of satire in America showcases the means by which our society is...

Understanding 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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535449137Author Andrea GouveiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Midsummer/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 impending marriage of the Governor of New Jersey, the love...

It'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...

In 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 these categories. Instead, their performances adopted an...

Charley 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...

Although 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 to better understand the larger cultural truths...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250214812Author Dave ItzkoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 25mm

In 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...

Horror 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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806132389Author Ben YagodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

Horses, 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 of six definitive volumes of The Papers of Will Rogers...

For 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 some distinct facet of the genre - the genre that Woody...

Vaudeville 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 comedian Ed Lowry (1896-1983). Although occasionally found...

This 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 humorist and commentator had reached national...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 143mm *...

Women 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 plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and...

From 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. Funny As tells the story of comedy in this country...

No 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 methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre...

The 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 structures into an "event" that triggers, by virtue of a...

Beginning 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 dancer and dance instructor Lisa Lewis offers step-by-step...

In 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 in the fabric of our beliefs-they challenge myths about...

At 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, the 'Queen' hurled herself out of a helicopter, her...

There 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 or heckling. Performer and role are interlaced, so...

Contemporary 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 in the urban landscape of Bogota. In doing so it brings...

This 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 art, politics and society. Donald Sells locates the...

Unresolved 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 what otherwise evades perception. Performance and the...

Unresolved 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 what otherwise evades perception. Performance and the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813197562Author David SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint University Press of KentuckyPublisher University Press of KentuckyWeight(grams)...

Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by developing a Global South perspective. Taking a wide-ranging...

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the...

Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations...