The Comedy Studies Reader - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1477315993 ISBN 13 : 9781477315996

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2018

Synopsis

From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and approaches for studying comedic media--the carnivalesque, comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field--first, comedy's development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the present as a "comedy zeitgeist"; and second, comedy studies' new focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in "serious" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nick Marx is an assistant professor of media studies at Colorado State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1477315993
• ISBN 13: 9781477315996
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Marx Nick, Sienkiewicz Matt
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• Personne responsable: non disponible