Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-277) and index.
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Definitions, genres, and forms -- Comedy and narrative -- Gags, jokes, wisecracks, and comic events -- Laughter, humor, and the comic -- Verisimilitude -- Hollywood, comedy, and the case of silent slapstick -- The comedy of the sexes -- Comedy, television, and variety -- Broadcast comedy and sit-com.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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"--Publisher description.
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