Popular Film and Television Comedy

By Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik

Book Overview

How is comedy related to its institutional context? Neale and Krutnik, in this wide-ranging discussion of the genre, propose that comedy always involves deviation from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms.

• 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"