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Machine-Age Comedy Michael North 9780195381221
SciFier: €181.49In 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... -
Movie Comedians of the 1950s by Wes D. Gehring
RRP: €34.79SciFier: €30.25The 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... -
![Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1981-2006 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz 9781948221627](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/156019/707570/9781948221627__42371.1723680331.jpg?c=1 "Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1981-2006 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz 9781948221627")
Lights, Camera, Accordion!: Eye-Popping Photographs of "Weird Al" Yankovic, 1981-2006 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz 9781948221627
RRP: €34.79SciFier: €26.10As featured in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence, Mashable, Mental Floss, Book Riot and more!"Weird Al" Yankovic continues as one of our most beloved comedians, actors, and... -
Played Out: The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire Brandon J. Manning 9781978824256
RRP: €72.00SciFier: €62.32Dating 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: €34.79SciFier: €30.25As 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: €135.59Video 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: €130.80SciFier: €86.70Stand-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: €34.79SciFier: €30.25All 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: €111.59Clown: 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: €23.09Apologies 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: €135.59This 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: €143.99SciFier: €135.59Comedy 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: €44.39Situation 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,... -
Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis: On the Couch with Lucy, Basil, and Kimmie D.T. Klika (Middlesex University, UK) 9781501327414
SciFier: €161.39Situation 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: €94.80SciFier: €75.48Ideal 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: €117.59Funny, 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: €93.59'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: €10.08SciFier: €9.89Apologies 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: €65.77The 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: €25.14SciFier: €21.38Will 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: €34.79SciFier: €30.25Mel 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...