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The Comic Event

The Comic Event

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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, 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 Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2019-07-25
Publication Date:
2019-07-25
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501354884
ISBN13:
9781501354885
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
354 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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