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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 809.917
EAN num: 9780415299329
ISBN number: 0415299322
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: December 20, 2004
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What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques, tracing the historical definitions of comedy from Aristotle to Chris Morris's Brass Eye via Wilde and Hancock. Rather than attempting to produce a totalizing definition of 'the comic,' this volume focuses on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin.
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It's really hard to find decent critical books on comedy as they're either too specific or subscribe to just one theory. This one, however, is wide-ranging, up-to-date and smart and full of examples from tv and movies. It's got historical background, explains a ton of stuff and uses modern theories really well.
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