{"product_id":"popular-film-and-television-comedy-frank-krutnik-9781138142176","title":"Popular Film and Television Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteve 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 to their institutional contexts. They propose that all forms and modes of the comic involve deviations from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms, and, to demonstrate this, they discuss a wide range of programmes and films, from \u003cem\u003eBlackadder\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBringing up Baby\u003c\/em\u003e, from \u003cem\u003eCity Limits\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBlind Date\u003c\/em\u003e, from the \u003cem\u003eRoadrunner\u003c\/em\u003e cartoons to \u003cem\u003eBless this House\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Two Ronnies\u003c\/em\u003e. Comedies looked at in particular detail include: the classic slapstick films of Keaton, Lloyd, and Chaplin; Hollywood's 'screwball' comedies of the 1930s and 1940s; \u003cem\u003eMonty Python\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHancock\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSteptoe and Son\u003c\/em\u003e. The authors also relate their discussion to radio comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Krutnik,Steve Neale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138142174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138142176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Frank Krutnik","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621976944895,"sku":"9781138142176","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/popular-film-and-television-comedy-frank-krutnik-9781138142176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}