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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 momentjokes, bitsto the more complexcaricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergsons short treatise Laughter, Sigmund Freuds 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.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9781501335723
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 240
- Utgivningsdatum: 2018-01-11
- Förlag: Bloomsbury Academic USA