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The comic event : comedic performance from the 1950s to the present
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Overview
\"The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an \"event\" that triggers, by virtue of a \"cut,\" an expected/unexpected resolution. Using examples from mainstream comedy, The Comic Event progresses from the smallest comic moment--jokes, bits--to the more complex--caricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise \"Laughter,\" Sigmund Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering event that resolves with a \"cut,\" Roof characterizes comedy not only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden expected/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality, self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and aspects of performance in multiple contexts\"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
ISBN
9781501335723, 1501335723
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| Call Number | Copies | Material | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| PN1922.R66 2018 | 1 | BOOK | AUTOSTORE |
