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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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CRESC |
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CRESC
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| Summary |
Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has exploded into a booming billion-pound industry both on TV and on the live circuit. Despite this, academia has either ignored comedy or focused solely on analysing comedians or comic texts. This scholarship tends to assume that through analysing an artist's intentions or techniques, we can somehow understand what is and what isn't funny. But this poses a fundamental question - funny to whom? How can we definitively discern how audiences react to comedy?Comedy and |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135009014 |
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1135009015 |
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