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The Comic Event - Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,039
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The Comic Event - Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Hardcover): Judith Roof

The Comic Event - Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Hardcover)

Judith Roof

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The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an "event" that triggers, by virtue of a "cut," an expected/unexpected resolution. Using examples from mainstream comedy, The Comic Event progresses from the smallest comic moment-jokes, bits-to the more complex-caricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise "Laughter," Sigmund Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering event that resolves with a "cut," Roof characterizes comedy not only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden expected/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality, self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and aspects of performance in multiple contexts.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2018
Authors: Judith Roof
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3572-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
LSN: 1-5013-3572-3
Barcode: 9781501335723

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