Comedy Studies Reader Hardcover 1

Nick Marx

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.

9781477315996

English

University of Texas Press

328

Nick Marx is an assistant professor of media studies at Colorado State University. Matt Sienkiewicz is an associate professor of communication and international studies at Boston College

Matt Sienkiewicz

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