Popular Film and Television Comedy
Neale, Steve; Krutnik, Frank
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Description for Popular Film and Television Comedy
Paperback. How is comedy related to its institutional context? Neale and Krutnik, in this wide-ranging discussion of the genre, propose that comedy always involves deviation from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms. Series: Popular Fictions Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the nature of these forms and conventions and to relate them to their institutional contexts. They propose that all forms and modes of the comic involve deviations from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms, and, to demonstrate this, ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Popular Fictions Series
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415046923
SKU
V9780415046923
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99-1
About Neale, Steve; Krutnik, Frank
Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik both lecture in Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Reviews for Popular Film and Television Comedy
`Few books have been written about comedy, and this one sets out to redress the balance, defining comedy and trying to understand what makes a particular comedy popular. From sitcoms to stand-up, all types of comedy come under scrutiny by Neale and Krutnik.' - Press and Journal