TY - BOOK ID - 77868327 TI - Popular film and television comedy AU - Neale, Stephen. AU - Krutnik, Frank PY - 1990 SN - 1134946864 1280603755 9786610603756 0203131975 9780203131978 6610603758 9781134946815 1134946813 9781134946853 1134946856 9781134946860 0415046912 0415046920 9780415046916 9780415046923 9781138142176 1138142174 9781138142176 9781280603754 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Comedy films. KW - Comedy films--History and criticism. KW - Comic, The. KW - History. KW - Television comedies. KW - Television comedies--History. KW - Comedy films KW - Television comedies KW - Comic, The KW - Film KW - Music, Dance, Drama & Film KW - Ludicrous, The KW - Ridiculous, The KW - Comedy KW - Wit and humor KW - Comedies, Television KW - Comedy programs KW - Comedy programs, Television KW - Comedy television programs KW - Television comedy programs KW - Television programs KW - History and criticism KW - Comedy films - History and criticism KW - Television comedies - History KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868327 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 -