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The Charley Chase Talkies by James L. Neibaur
SciFier: $167.25Charley 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: $172.20Although 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: $45.34SciFier: $28.94Apologies 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: $136.55In 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: $52.90SciFier: $42.64Horror 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... -
Will Rogers by Ben Yagoda
RRP: $45.27SciFier: $43.15Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806132389Author Ben YagodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint -
The Papers of Will Rogers: The Early Years, November 1879-April 1904 Will Rogers 9780806127453
SciFier: $104.35Horses, 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: $56.61SciFier: $42.64For 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: $43.38SciFier: $27.80Vaudeville 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: $104.06This 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... -
Digging Up Mother by Doug Stanhope
SciFier: $26.91Apologies 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: $85.05SciFier: $71.08Women 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: $94.41SciFier: $58.55From 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: $86.92No 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: $69.91The 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: $62.37SciFier: $57.65Beginning 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: $43.45In 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... -
Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy Neil Archer (Keele University, UK) 9781350242449
SciFier: $66.13At 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: $71.80There 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: $71.80Contemporary 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: $68.02This 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: $137.99Unresolved 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... -
Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice Catherine Cole 9780472054589
RRP: $62.28SciFier: $59.61Unresolved 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... -
Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades David Steinberg 9780813197562
RRP: $52.83SciFier: $42.47Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813197562Author David SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint -
Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance Daniel Hammett (University of Sheffield) 9781529219715
RRP: $90.70SciFier: $73.77Analyses 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... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire by Matthew Kaiser
SciFier: $183.75Drawing 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... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age Professor Andrew McConnell Stott 9781350000735
SciFier: $183.75Drawing 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... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment by Elizabeth Kraft
SciFier: $183.75This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this... -
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk
SciFier: $28.27Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399180538Author Bob OdenkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824249
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $35.29Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial... -
One Foot in the Grave by David Renwick
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $29.11Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781963579Author David RenwickFormat HardbackImprint -
Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life Daniel Sloss 9780525658146
SciFier: $27.41Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525658146Author Daniel SlossFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824256
RRP: $113.40SciFier: $98.15Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: $213.55Video 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... -
Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals Jared N. Champion 9781496835482
RRP: $206.01SciFier: $136.55Stand-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... -
Clown: The Physical Comedian Joe Dieffenbacher (Independent scholar, UK) 9781350143098
SciFier: $175.75Clown: The Physical Comedian is a detailed and comprehensive workbook for those interested in the art of clowning and physical theatre, including actors, directors, improvisers, stand-up comedians,... -
Between Laughter and Satire by Conal Condren
SciFier: $213.55This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes... -
Comedy in Crises by Chrisoula Lionis
RRP: $226.78SciFier: $213.55Comedy 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... -
Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis: On the Couch with Lucy, Basil, and Kimmie D.T. Klika (Middlesex University, UK) 9781501354908
SciFier: $69.91Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis puts the sitcom character on the analyst's couch and closely examines the characters of Basil Fawlty, Lucy Ricardo and Kim from Australia's Kath & Kim,... -
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy Linda Mizejewski 9781477314517
RRP: $149.31SciFier: $118.88Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to...