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Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: $65.32This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783319778471
SciFier: $99.37This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030102753
SciFier: $79.22This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk's tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK,... -
The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783319728407
SciFier: $129.95This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk's tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK,... -
Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture Paul N. Reinsch 9783319513843
SciFier: $156.63This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances. These men are prolific creators in a variety of... -
Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture Paul N. Reinsch 9783319846361
SciFier: $154.93This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances. These men are prolific creators in a variety of... -
The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920: Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity Sam Beale 9783030479435
SciFier: $132.43This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British... -
New Indian Nuttahs: Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India Kavyta Kay 9783030074203
SciFier: $65.32This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about... -
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers Sabrina Fuchs Abrams 9783319859866
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $126.88This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille... -
Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour Chiara Bucaria 9781349955220
SciFier: $38.91The 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... -
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers Sabrina Fuchs Abrams 9783319567280
RRP: $138.99SciFier: $129.26This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille... -
Politics of Recognition and Representation in Indian Stand-Up Comedy by Richa Chilana
RRP: $166.79SciFier: $150.11This book, first of its kind in the Indian context, brings together both a theoretical understanding of various aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, and case studies of... -
The Politics of British Stand-up Comedy: The New Alternative Sophie Quirk 9783030011048
SciFier: $72.27This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other. The Alternative Comedy Movement of the late... -
Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics by Jane Arthurs
SciFier: $65.32Russell Brand is one of the most high profile and controversial celebrities of our time. A divisive figure, his ability to bounce back from adversity is remarkable. This book traces his various... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783319905051
SciFier: $129.26This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability... -
UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity Mary Irwin 9783031236280
SciFier: $172.35This book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the 2020s. It explores depictions of distinctive geographical, historical and... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise Stephen Hamrick 9783030339609
SciFier: $65.32Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783030080297
SciFier: $79.22This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise Stephen Hamrick 9783030339579
SciFier: $95.20Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th... -
The Comic Everywoman in Irish Popular Theatre: Political Melodrama, 1890-1925 Susanne Colleary 9783030020071
SciFier: $65.32This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925. It maps out the performance contexts of the period, such as Irish "poor" theatre both... -
Humour as Politics by Nicholas Holm
SciFier: $172.35This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic... -
Comedy in Crises by Chrisoula Lionis
RRP: $166.79SciFier: $157.06Comedy 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... -
Inequality in Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy in the UK by Claire Sedgwick
RRP: $48.64SciFier: $45.86This Pivot explores the cultural economy of comedy in the UK, looking specifically at the links between industry practices and structures and who produces comedy in the UK. The research is based on... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372163
SciFier: $143.34This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372132
SciFier: $143.34This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: $157.06Video 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... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883409
SciFier: $157.06Video 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... -
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives Oliver Double 9783030973506
SciFier: $132.43Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and... -
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives Oliver Double 9783030973537
SciFier: $129.26Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and... -
The Red Letter at the Music Hall by David Huxley
SciFier: $65.32This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter, which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987. The articles under... -
Comic Performance in Pakistan by Claire Pamment
SciFier: $145.03This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings. With irreverent repartee,...