Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Popular Film and Television Comedy - Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale

Popular Film and Television Comedy

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
1990
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-04692-3 (ISBN)
CHF 68,90 inkl. MwSt
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.
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, they discuss a wide range of programmes and films, from Blackadder to Bringing up Baby, from City Limits to Blind Date, from the Roadrunner cartoons to Bless this House and The Two Ronnies. Comedies looked at in particular detail include: the classic slapstick films of Keaton, Lloyd, and Chaplin; Hollywood's 'screwball' comedies of the 1930s and 1940s; Monty Python, Hancock, and Steptoe and Son. The authors also relate their discussion to radio comedy.

Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik both lecture in Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Introduction 1 Section 1 1 Definitions, genres, and forms 2 Comedy and narrative 3 Gags, jokes, wisecracks, and comic events 4 Laughter, humour, and the comic 5 Verisimilitude Section 2 6 Hollywood, comedy, and The Case of Silent Slapstick 7 The comedy of the sexes Section 3 8 Comedy, television, and variety 9 Broadcast comedy and sit-com

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.5.1990
Reihe/Serie Popular Fictions Series
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-04692-0 / 0415046920
ISBN-13 978-0-415-04692-3 / 9780415046923
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich

von Ulla Ellermann; Maike Tietjens; Flora Thielbörger

Buch | Softcover (2024)
UTB (Verlag)
CHF 39,90