What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event / Dan O'Shannon.
2012
PN1922 .O84 2012
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Title
What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event / Dan O'Shannon.
Author
ISBN
9781441162939
1441162933
1441162933
Imprint
New York : Continuum, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 298 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PN1922 .O84 2012
System Control No.
(OCoLC)773666944
(OCoLC)773666944
(OCoLC)773666944
Summary
Presents an entirely new approach to comedy theory. It challenges long-held beliefs and shows how the three main theories of comedy (incongruity, superiority, and relief) are not in conflict; but rather, work as parts of a larger model.
Note
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note
Common comedy theories ; The comedic event ; Documenting the comedic event
Part one. Elements of context, the reception factors: The receiver and his world ; Elements of communication ; Vehicles ; Level of control and identifying the source
Part two. Comedic information: Fundamental components ; Incongruity ; Cognitive process ; Variations ; Comedy and entropy
Part three. Enhancers, inhibitors, and aspects of awareness: How comedic information triggers enhancers and inhibitors ; Elements of the joke's communication, structure, and content
Summing it all up.
Part one. Elements of context, the reception factors: The receiver and his world ; Elements of communication ; Vehicles ; Level of control and identifying the source
Part two. Comedic information: Fundamental components ; Incongruity ; Cognitive process ; Variations ; Comedy and entropy
Part three. Enhancers, inhibitors, and aspects of awareness: How comedic information triggers enhancers and inhibitors ; Elements of the joke's communication, structure, and content
Summing it all up.
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