{"product_id":"the-comedy-studies-reader-nick-marx-9781477315996","title":"The Comedy Studies Reader","description":"From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader. This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and approaches for studying comedic media--the carnivalesque, comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field--first, comedy's development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular commentators to characterize the present as a \"comedy zeitgeist\"; and second, comedy studies' new focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in \"serious\" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Marx\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477315993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477315996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Nick Marx","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013942784255,"sku":"9781477315996","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7475fd4b-447d-415c-b73b-ef981485d060.jpg?v=1767745741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-comedy-studies-reader-nick-marx-9781477315996","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}