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Laughing Matters - Understanding Film, Television and Radio Comedy (Hardcover, New)
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Laughing Matters - Understanding Film, Television and Radio Comedy (Hardcover, New)
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Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and
radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and
contexts. The introduction explains the value of studying comedy,
concisely outlines the approach taken and summarises the relevant
theories. The subsequent chapters are divided into two parts. The
first part examines the specific forms comedy has taken as a
constant and key element in film and broadcast comedy from their
origins to the present. The second part shows how the genre
gravitates towards contentious issues in British and American
culture as it finds humour in the boundaries of class, gender,
sexuality, race and logic. The authors cover silent cinema comedy
including Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, sound film comedies including
the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, Romantic film comedy,
radio, television situation and sketch comedy, comedy and genre
(including parody and spoof), animations from cartoons to CGI,
issues of gender and sexuality from drag comedy to queer reading,
issues of taste and humour from Carry On to contemporary
'gross-out' , and issues of race and ethnicity including a case
study of African-American screen comedy. Numerous opportunities for
following up are highlighted and advice on further reading, writing
academically about comedy and an extensive bibliography add to the
value of this textbook. -- .
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