The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present by Judith Roof

The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present

Judith Roof

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art comics literary sociology challenging informative medium-paced

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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...

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