Comedy - Brossura

Stott, Andrew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415299330 ISBN 13: 9780415299336

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2004

Riassunto

What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques, tracing the historical definitions of comedy from Aristotle to Chris Morris's Brass Eye via Wilde and Hancock. Rather than attempting to produce a totalising definition of 'the comic', this volume focuses on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Andrew Stott is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.

Contenuti:

1. Comedy in the Academy  2. Comic Identity  3. Gender and Sexuality  4. The Body  5. Politics  6 Laughter

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0415299330
• ISBN 13: 9780415299336
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176