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African American Comedians
Alternative Comedy
Andrew Stott
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Book III
Brass Eye
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Chaste Maid
Comedians
Comedy
Comedy and race
Comedy genre
Comic
Comic Identity
Comic theory
Commedia Erudita
critical idiom guides
Deconstruction
Drawn Back
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Fat Tuesday
Frances Gray
Freud
gender and humour studies
Gender in comedy
Gender in theory
Good Life
History of comedy
Human Suffering
intersectionality in comic performance analysis
Italian Folk Tales
John Drakakis
Laughter
Les Vacances De Monsieur Hulot
Machiavelli's La Mandragola
Machiavelli’s La Mandragola
Media Action Network
Moll Cutpurse
Mon Oncle
New Critical Idiom
Night Watchman
ORL
Panel Shows
Pantomime Dames
Politics and Satire
Pope Innocent III
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalytic comedy theory
queer theory in performance
Race and Ethnicity
race and ethnicity in humour
Routledge
satire and political comedy
Slapstick
Vice Versa
Women in comedy
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415854184
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This new edition of Andrew Stott’s Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin. This new edition features:
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- updates to reflect new research the field
- new chapters on Women in Comedy and Race and Ethnicity
- a broader range of literary and cultural examples.
Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is ideal introduction to comedy for students studying literature and culture.
Andrew Stott is Professor of English at the University of Buffalo, SUNY, USA.
