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by Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik

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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"

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