The Comic Event

The Comic Event
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781501335747
ISBN-13 : 150133574X
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Book Synopsis The Comic Event by : Judith Roof

Download or read book The Comic Event written by Judith Roof and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of a “cut,” an expected/unexpected resolution. 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.


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