Funny How? : Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 199056033
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- ISBN
- 9781438478296
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The first single-authored book (162 pp.) dedicated to the analysis of sketch comedy: it argues that the brevity of a sketch (and its typical rejection of narrative development) make it comedy-concentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humour works. Through vivid close-readings of individual sketches, it demonstrates how Aristotle's three forms of appeal--logos, ethos, pathos--can form the basis for illuminating the inner workings of humour. It offers an authoritative approach to a neglected topic: drawing widely on popular and lesser-known examples from the US, UK, and elsewhere, it reveals the techniques and resonances of humour.
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- Non-English
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