The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader
$114.58
- Paperback
418 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2019
Summary
The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the decade since its inception in 2010.
The Reader illustrates the multiple perspectives that are available when analysing comedy. Wilkie’s selections present an array of critical approaches from interdisciplinary scholars, all of whom evaluate comedy from different angles and adopt a range of writing styles to explore the phenomenon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780367175948 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0367175940 |
| Author: | Ian Wilkie |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 418 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 820g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 246mm |
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Critics Review
Praise for A Comedy Studies Reader, ed. Ian Wilkie
An important resource for those bent on taking comedy seriously, this collection gathers disparate studies from the innovative Journal of Comedy Studies and elsewhere to illuminate contemporary performative comedy. It should prove invaluable for students in Comedy Studies and also remind many in Humour Studies about the importance of the relationship between a piece of humour and its mediator, whether professional or or amateur, as a creator of amusement and laughter.
Jessica Milner Davis FRSN, University of Sydney
Ian Wilkie
Ian Wilkie is a Lecturer in Performance at the University of Salford, specialising in the Comedy Writing and Performance degree. His PhD is in Comedy and he is the author of Performing in Comedy: A Student’s Guide. Wilkie has been articles editor of Comedy Studies since 2013 (becoming main editor in 2015), and occasionally works as a comic actor.
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