The Comic Event
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-5488-5 (ISBN)
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.
Judith Roof is Professor of English and William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University, USA. She has published books and essays on narrative theory, studies in sexuality, Hollywood cinema, DNA, hoaxes, and on the work of such authors as Beckett, Pinter, Duras, Woolf, and Percival Everett.
Prolegomenon: “a pert challenge flung at philosophic speculation”
Bit I: “At First Mere Improvisation”
Bit II: Reverberations: The Joke of the Joke
Bit III: Repetition and the Exquisite Seriesness of Series
Bit IV: “Play It Again, Sheldon” Nothing in Comedy Ever Only Happens Once
Bit V: The Comic Uncanny; or The Character of Caricature
Bit VI: Breaking Stacks and Cutting Layers: The Self-conscious Comedy of Comedy
Bit VII: Doubling Down on the Mise en Abyme: The Comic Contexts of Comedy
Bit VIII: Ourobouros—Epanalepsis: “a pert challenge flung at philosophic speculation”
Bit IX: Ourobouroubouroubouros; Or When Parody Takes Itself On
Bit X: The Long and Winding Road
Epilogue: The Aristocratic Apparatus
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2019 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 327 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-5488-4 / 1501354884 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-5488-5 / 9781501354885 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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