Mundy / White Laughing matters

Understanding film, television and radio comedy
25. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3052-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

An incisive, witty and comprehensive textbook that looks at the many genres of comedy from silent film onwards. Covering film, televison and radio it is not only up-to-date but also provides full historical context. It focuses on all of the key issues studied on university courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mundy, John

White, Glyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Comedy forms

1 Silent film comedy

2 Early sound film comedy

3 The romantic comedy film

4 Radio comedy

5 Television comedy

6 Comedy and genre boundaries

7 Animated comedy

Part II: Themes, effects and impact of comedy

8 Comedy, gender and sexuality

9 Comedy and cultural value: from bad taste to gross-out

10 Comedy, race and ethnicity

Conclusion: ‘You had to be there’

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

White Glyn:

Glyn White is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of SalfordJohn Mundy is

Glyn White is Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford