Popular Film and Television Comedy

by Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik

Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the nature of these forms and conventions and to relate them...

• 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"