A National Joke: Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identities

by Andy Medhurst

Book Overview

Comedy is crucial to how the English see themselves. This book considers that proposition through a series of case studies of popular English comedies and comedians in the twentieth century, ranging from the Carry On films to the work of Mike Leigh and contemporary sitcoms such as The Royle Family, and from George Formby to Alan Bennett and Roy 'Chubby' Brown.

Relating comic traditions to questions of class, gender, sexuality and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415168775
• ISBN13: 9780415168779
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"