Judith Roof, "The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present"
English | ISBN: 1501354884 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 451 KB
English | ISBN: 1501354884 | 2019 | 240 pages | EPUB | 451 KB
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
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