Popular Film and Television Comedy

by Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415046920
• ISBN13: 9780415046923
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"