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Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: $102.16This 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: $151.56This 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: $120.82This 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: $198.20This 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: $239.20This 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... -
New Indian Nuttahs: Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India Kavyta Kay 9783030074203
SciFier: $102.16This 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... -
Python beyond Python: Critical Engagements with Culture Paul N. Reinsch 9783319846361
SciFier: $236.63This 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... -
The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920: Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity Sam Beale 9783030479435
SciFier: $201.25This 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... -
Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour Chiara Bucaria 9781349955220
SciFier: $59.34The 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... -
The Politics of British Stand-up Comedy: The New Alternative Sophie Quirk 9783030011048
SciFier: $112.85This 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... -
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers Sabrina Fuchs Abrams 9783319567280
RRP: $211.98SciFier: $197.14This 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: $254.38SciFier: $228.94This 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... -
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers Sabrina Fuchs Abrams 9783319859866
RRP: $211.98SciFier: $193.51This 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... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783030080297
SciFier: $120.82This 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... -
The Comic Everywoman in Irish Popular Theatre: Political Melodrama, 1890-1925 Susanne Colleary 9783030020071
SciFier: $102.16This 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... -
Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics by Jane Arthurs
SciFier: $99.62Russell 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... -
Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise Stephen Hamrick 9783030339579
SciFier: $145.20Contextualizing 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... -
Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak Helen Davies 9783319905051
SciFier: $197.14This 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 9783030339609
SciFier: $102.16Contextualizing 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... -
Humour as Politics by Nicholas Holm
RRP: $254.38SciFier: $239.54This 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... -
Inequality in Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy in the UK by Claire Sedgwick
RRP: $74.18SciFier: $69.94This 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... -
Comedy in Crises by Chrisoula Lionis
RRP: $254.38SciFier: $239.54Comedy 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... -
Video Games and Comedy Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone 9783030883379
SciFier: $239.54Video 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... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372132
RRP: $211.98SciFier: $197.14This 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 9783030372163
RRP: $211.98SciFier: $197.14This 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 9783030883409
SciFier: $239.54Video 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: $201.25Alternative 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: $201.51Alternative 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: $102.16This 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... -
Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour Chiara Bucaria 9781137593375
SciFier: $218.34The 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... -
Comic Performance in Pakistan by Claire Pamment
SciFier: $221.20This 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,...