Popular film and television comedy / Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik
Imprint
London : Routledge, 1990
Descript
viii, 291 p.; 2 cm
CONTENT
Definitions, genres, and forms -- Comedy and narrative -- Gags, jokes, wisecracks, and comic events -- Laughter, humour, and the comic -- Verisimilitude -- Hollywood, comedy, and the case of silent slapstick -- The comedy of the sexes -- Comedy, television, and variety -- Broadcast comedy and sit-com