Winner, MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association /
Midwest American Culture Association, 2020 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 gathers both foundational and cutting-edge
work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy
Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles,
more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of
themes and approaches for studying comedic media-the carnivalesque,
comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race
and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization.
The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin,
Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and
emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two
parallel trends in the evolution of the field-first, comedy's
development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a
tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the
present as a "comedy zeitgeist"; and second, comedy studies' new
focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in
"serious" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race,
gender, and cultural power.
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