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"Essays on contemporary political cartooning in Australia."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Haydon R. Manning
Publisher : Network Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1920845488
"Essays on contemporary political cartooning in Australia."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Richard Scully
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1526142961
Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art.
Author : Rick DesRochers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441132325
The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and The Three Keatons, and moving through the silent and early sound films of the early 1930s, the author looks at how comic writer/performers continue to sell a brand of themselves as a form of social commentary in order to confront and dispel stereotypes of race, class, and gender. The first study to explore contemporary popular comic culture and its influence on American society from this unique perspective, Rick DesRochers analyzes stand-up and improvisational comedy writing/performing in the work of Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle. He grounds these choices by examining their evolution as they developed signature characters and sketches for their respective shows Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, The Colbert Report, and Chappelle's Show.
Author : Ethan Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1136839801
In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1950s, an explosion of satire and parody took place across a wide field of American culture—in magazines, comic books, film, comedy albums, and on television itself. Taken together, these case studies don’t just analyze and theorize the production and consumption of parody and television, but force us to revisit and revise our notions of postwar "consensus" culture as well.
Author : Ian Wilkie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317429281
Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performance choices and improvised moments can work in conjunction with texts themselves, Performing in Comedy offers an indispensable practical tool for enhancing comic performance. This volume is a must-read for any actors, directors or students who work with comic texts. Wilkie synthesises theories and principles of comedy with practical tips, and re-evaluates the ways in which these ideas can be used by the performer. Most importantly, these skills – timing, focus, awareness – are teachable rather than being innate talents. Exercises, interviews and guides to further resources enhance this comprehensive exploration of comic acting.
Author : William Samuel Hendrix
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Comic, The
ISBN :
Author : W. D. Howarth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000579212
Ever since comedies were first performed in the ancient world, the definition of the term ‘comedy’ has been debated by both playwrights and critics. Originally published in 1978, this volume does not attempt a precise definition, but reviews the various interpretations that have been put forward through the ages, taking as evidence important theoretical writings as well as the plays themselves, and pointing out not only common features but also notable exceptions. The comic drama of Western Europe since the Renaissance is here surveyed in a series of chapters devoted principally to the tradition of European comedy as it developed in the major national literatures. The perspective is expanded to include, on the one hand, the origins in classical Greece and Rome and, on the other, the influence of cinema, radio and television comedy at the time – American as well as European. A structural basis for the volume as a whole is provided in an analytical introduction, where the essential problems are defined: such issues as the relationship between comedy and satire, comedy and farce; the distinction between laughter and smile; the respective claims of realism and fantasy; the role of plot and of dialogue; the place of sentiment and of moral teaching; and the possibility of comic catharsis. In this way the nature and evolution of European comedy is presented in an original and coherent form, not only offering an invaluable aid to students seeking guidance in literature of which they are not making a specialist study, but stimulating the more experienced reader to think again about familiar plays.
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110695820
This book contains a collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Franco Montanari by eminent specialists on Homer, ancient Homeric scholarship, and the reception of the Homeric Epics in both ancient and modern times. It covers a wide range of important subjects, including neoanalysis and oral poetry, the Doloneia, the Homeric scholia, the theoretical premises of Aristarchean scholarship, and Homer in Sappho, Pindar, Comedy, Plato, and Hellenistic Poetry. As a whole, the contributions demonstrate the vitality of modern scholarship on Homeric poetry.
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN :