Understanding Comedy through College Comedies

Understanding Comedy through College Comedies
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9780761870630
ISBN-13 : 0761870636
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Book Synopsis Understanding Comedy through College Comedies by : Norman Kagan

Download or read book Understanding Comedy through College Comedies written by Norman Kagan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Comedy through College Comedies explains the nature of comedy through the study of college comedy films, including classics (College, The Freshman); romantic/screwball comedies (Where the Boys Are, Ball of Fire, Sterile Cuckoo); famous comedian comedies (Horse Feathers, The Nutty Professor, The Klumps); intergenerational college comedies (That’s My Boy, Back to School, Old School); social comedies (The Graduate, Breaking Away, Risky Business); political comedies (Getting Straight, Strawberry Statement, Last Supper); ethnic comedies (School Daze, Soul Man, How High); and college farces (Charlie’s Aunt, Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds, Slackers). In this book, Norman Kagan explains comic terminology, concepts, and theories, including Freud’s “displaced sexual content” in Decline of the American Empires, Langer’s “vitalism” in Slacker, Bergson’s “anesthesia of the heart” in The Squid and the Whale, and Frye’s “reversal of literary modes” in Storytelling. The reader will discover the reasons why they are laughing, new reasons to laugh, and new films that will provide new sources of laughter.


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