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Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades David Steinberg 9780813197562
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £22.62Apologies 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: £47.99SciFier: £39.03Analyses 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... -
Sicker in the Head Judd Apatow 9780525509424
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.14Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509424Author Judd ApatowFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire by Matthew Kaiser
SciFier: £98.98Drawing 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: £98.98Drawing 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: £98.98This 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... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity by mr Michael Ewans
SciFier: £98.98Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age Ms Louise Peacock 9781350000766
SciFier: £98.98Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic... -
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk
SciFier: £15.14Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399180538Author Bob OdenkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Fools and Folly Clifford Davidson 9781879288690
SciFier: £18.74The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies, which were then considered amusing, or a professional entertainer the artificial... -
Clowns: In Conversation David Bridel 9781032065649
SciFier: £153.63Unparalleled 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... -
Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824249
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.67Dating 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... -
Dirty Daddy by Bob Saget
SciFier: £9.99He is the sweetly neurotic father on the smash hit Full House ...The charming, wisecracking host of America's Funniest Home Videos ...The scatological, out-of-his-mind stand-up comic from Entourage... -
One Foot in the Grave by David Renwick
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £15.40Apologies 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: £14.73Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525658146Author Daniel SlossFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Bare Truth: Stars of Burlesque from the 40s and 50s Len Rothe 9780764306037
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.08Following the tremendous success of his first book on the subject, The Queens of Burlesque, Len Rothe has again pulled from his collection of original photographs of entertainers this delightful... -
Movie Comedians of the 1950s by Wes D. Gehring
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.21The examination of 1950s film clowns suggestions this decade was the 20th century's most volatile for the genre. Besides McCarthyism and TV and their potential for the dumbing down of pictures, this... -
Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824256
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £51.93Dating 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... -
Joe E. Brown by Wes D. Gehring
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.21As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: £112.99Video 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: £109.00SciFier: £72.25Stand-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... -
Ethics in Comedy by Steven A. Benko
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.21All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it is also has the power... -
Clown: The Physical Comedian Joe Dieffenbacher (Independent scholar, UK) 9781350143098
SciFier: £92.99Clown: 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,... -
Talking About Rakugo 2 by Kristine Ohkubo
SciFier: £19.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087984599Author Kristine OhkuboFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint -
Between Laughter and Satire by Conal Condren
SciFier: £112.99This 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: £119.99SciFier: £112.99Comedy 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: £36.99Situation 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: £79.00SciFier: £62.90Ideal 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... -
Why Stand-up Matters: How Comedians Manipulate and Influence Sophie Quirk (University of Kent, UK,) 9781472578938
SciFier: £97.99Funny, lively and unpredictable, stand-up comedy is above all a medium to be enjoyed. Popular as a good night out and packing the TV schedules, stand-up permeates British society and culture. ... -
Romantic Comedy Prof. Trevor R. Griffiths (London) 9781350183377
SciFier: £77.99'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an... -
Wooing the Dragon by Matthew Johnson
RRP: £8.40SciFier: £8.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997084641Author Matthew JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint -
The Papers of Will Rogers: Wild West and Vaudeville, April 1904-September 1908 Will Rogers 9780806132679
SciFier: £54.81The stage career of Will Rogers, one of America's most influential humorists, began to take shape during the years covered by this documentary history, the second volume in The Papers of Will Rogers... -
Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies by Arthur Frank Wertheim
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.82Will Rogers and Florenz Ziegfeld are two magic names in show business. Today Rogers is considered America's most beloved humorist, while Ziegfeld is recognized as the most flamboyant impresario in... -
The Big Screen Comedies of Mel Brooks by Robert Alan Crick
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.21Mel Brooks is often regarded as one of Hollywood's funniest men, thanks to such highly successful films as ""The Producers"", ""Blazing Saddles"", and ""Young Frankenstein"". Both critics and fans...