The comedy studies reader / edited by Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz.
From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gather...
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Volume introduction : comedy as theory, industry, and academic discipline
- The carnivalesque
- Comedy mechanics & absurdity
- Psychoanalyzing comedy
- Irony
- Genre
- Race & ethnicity
- Gender & sexuality
- Nation & globalization.