Comedy and Distinction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comedy and Distinction write by Sam Friedman. This book was released on 2014-04-24. Comedy and Distinction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book was shortlisted for the 2015 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has exploded into a booming billion-pound industry both on TV and on the live circuit. Despite this, academia has either ignored comedy or focused solely on analysing comedians or comic texts. This scholarship tends to assume that through analysing an artist’s intentions or techniques, we can somehow understand what is and what isn’t funny. But this poses a fundamental question – funny to whom? How can we definitively discern how audiences react to comedy? Comedy and Distinction shifts the focus to provide the first ever empirical examination of British comedy taste. Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews carried out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the book explores what types of comedy people like (and dislike), what their preferences reveal about their sense of humour, how comedy taste lubricates everyday interaction, and how issues of social class, gender, ethnicity and geographical location interact with patterns of comic taste. Friedman asks: Are some types of comedy valued higher than others in British society? Does more ‘legitimate’ comedy taste act as a tangible resource in social life – a form of cultural capital? What role does humour play in policing class boundaries in contemporary Britain? This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, social class, social theory, cultural studies and comedy studies.
Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy
Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy write by Wes D. Gehring. This book was released on 2002. Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is an informative resource for film students and scholars and a thoroughly engaging read for film buffs."--BOOK JACKET.
Isn’t that Clever
Isn’t that Clever - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Isn’t that Clever write by Steven Gimbel. This book was released on 2017-06-26. Isn’t that Clever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Isn’t That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor – the cleverness account – according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness. This volume asks whether there are limits to what can be said in dealing with a heckler and how do we determine whether one comedian has stolen jokes from another.
When the World Laughs
When the World Laughs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When the World Laughs write by William V. Costanzo. This book was released on 2020. When the World Laughs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and culture. It explores how film comedy, one of the world's most popular movie genres, reflects the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring characters and stories, its most entertaining routines and funniest jokes. What people laugh at in Europe, Africa, or the Far East reveals important truths about their differences and common bonds. By investigating their traditions of humor, by paying close attention to what kinds of comedy cross national boundaries or what gets lost in translation, this study leads us to a deeper understanding of each other and ourselves. Section One begins with a survey of the theories and research that best explain how humor works. It clarifies the varieties of comic forms and styles, identifies the world's most archetypal figures of fun, and traces the history of the world's traditions of humor from earliest times to today. It also examines the techniques and aesthetics of film comedy: how movies use the world's rich repertoire of amusing stories, gags, and wit to make us laugh and think. Section Two offers a close look at national and regional trends. It applies the concepts set forth earlier to specific films-across a broad spectrum of sub-genres, historical eras, and cultural contexts-providing an insightful comparative study of the world's great traditions of film comedy.
The Victorian Comic Spirit
The Victorian Comic Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Victorian Comic Spirit write by Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor. This book was released on 2017-11-22. The Victorian Comic Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title was first published in 2000: "Comedy" and "humour" are not words most associate with the Victorian period, yet their culture was rife with laughter and irony. The 12 essays in this volume reanimate this "comic spirit" by exploring the humour in its social context. While previous studies of humour in the period focus on the age's own ongoing interest in the old distinction in comic theory between wit and humour, this volume aims to show how inadequate this distinction is in accounting for the many types of Victorian comic representation. The essays turn from linguistic or psychological analyses of humour towards the social production of humour and the cultural dynamics which underlie it.
