The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present

by Judith Roof

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1501354884

ISBN13:9781501354885

Release Date:July 2019

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.72 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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