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Laughing matters: Understanding film, television and radio comedy (Record no. 5798)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780719083150
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency	MAIN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Mundy, John
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Laughing matters: Understanding film, television and radio comedy
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc	Manchester University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc	2012.
Place of publication, distribution, etc	Manchester, UK :
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	1 online resource (vii, 279 pages) :
Other physical details	illustrations ;
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	Include Index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	"Laughing Matters takes an analytic approach to film, television and radio comedy and provides an accessible overview of its forms and contexts. The introduction explains the value of studying comedy, concisely outlines the approach taken and summarises the relevant theories. The subsequent chapters are divided into two parts. The first part examines the specific forms comedy has taken as a constant and key element in film and broadcast comedy from their origins to the present. The second part shows how the genre gravitates towards contentious issues in British and American culture as it finds humour in the boundaries of class, gender, sexuality, race and logic. The authors cover silent cinema comedy including Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, sound film comedies including the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, Romantic film comedy, radio, television situation and sketch comedy, comedy and genre (including parody and spoof), animations from cartoons to CGI, issues of gender and sexuality from drag comedy to queer reading, issues of taste and humour from Carry On to contemporary 'gross-out', and issues of race and ethnicity including a case study of African-American screen comedy. Numerous opportunities for following up are highlighted and advice on further reading, writing academically about comedy and an extensive bibliography add to the value of this textbook."--
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Broadcasting
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element	Comedy
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		Dewey Decimal Classification			Non-fiction	LRC	LRC	General Stacks	22/05/2018	34	2444.76		791.4 MUN	B0044586	22/05/2018	3055.96	22/05/2018	Books