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The comedy studies reader
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- Creator
- edited by Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- ix, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781477315996, 1477315993, 9781477316009, 1477316000, 9781477316016, 9781477316023
- OCLC
- on1005782721
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Volume introduction : comedy as theory, industry, and academic discipline -- The carnivalesque -- Comedy mechanics & absurdity -- Psychoanalyzing comedy -- Irony -- Genre -- Race & ethnicity -- Gender & sexuality -- Nation & globalization
Subjects
- Comedy films -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Television comedies -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Motion pictures -- United States -- 20th century.
- Comedy -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Comedy -- History -- 20th century.