TY - BOOK ID - 6343545 TI - Popular film and television comedy AU - Neale, Steve AU - Krutnik, Frank PY - 1990 SN - 0415046920 0415046912 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - 791.43-1 KW - Comedy films KW - Comic, The KW - Television comedies KW - #SBIB:309H1326 KW - Comedies, Television KW - Comedy programs KW - Comedy programs, Television KW - Comedy television programs KW - Television comedy programs KW - Television programs KW - Ludicrous, The KW - Ridiculous, The KW - Comedy KW - Wit and humor KW - 791.43-1 Filmkunst. Films. Cinema--?-1 KW - Filmkunst. Films. Cinema--?-1 KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: genres en richtingen KW - Comic, The. KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - CDL KW - 791.43 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6343545 AB - Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the nature of these forms and conventions and to relate them to their institutional contexts. They propose that all forms and modes of the comic involve deviations from aesthetic and cultural conventions and n ER -