{"product_id":"the-comic-event-judith-roof-9781501354885","title":"The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event \u003c\/i\u003eapproaches 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing examples from mainstream comedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event \u003c\/i\u003eprogresses from the smallest comic moment-jokes, bits-to the more complex-caricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise \"Laughter, ? Sigmund Freud's \u003ci\u003eJokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e, and various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering event that resolves with a \"cut, ? Roof characterizes comedy not only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden expected\/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality, self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and aspects of performance in multiple contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Roof\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501354884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501354885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Judith Roof","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935198314751,"sku":"9781501354885","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_91a60388-5c2e-4754-8a95-c9a62cfdcb22.jpg?v=1681418427","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-comic-event-judith-roof-9781501354885","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}