Writing the comedy movie /
It is often suggested that there are 'secrets' to comedy or that it is 'lightning in a bottle', but the craft of comedy writing can be taught. While comedic tastes change, over time and from person to person, the core underpinning still depends on the comedic geniuses that have p...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Why Laugh?
- 1. It's all Greek to me: Comedy History from Aristophanes to Juvenal Establishing the Basic Tropes and Forms
- 2. Swiftian Satire and Shakespearean clowns: How the Elizabethans Attacked the Great and the Good with Parody and Lampoon
- 3. Wildean Wit: How Comedy Plays Became the Basis for the Comedy Movie
- 4. Silent Slapstick: How Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd Exploited Visual Comedy
- 5. Dumb and Dumber: How Laurel and Hardy Created the Perfect Double Act Template
- 6. It Happened one Night: How Zingy Screwball Comedy led to the Rom Com
- 7. Sullivan's Travels to Team America: Social Satire from the 1940s to the Present Day
- 8. Auteurs from Woody Allen to Sasha Baron-Cohen: One Man, One Vision
- 9. Here come the Girls: Women in Comedy from Kooky Girl to Leading Actress
- 10. The Subgenres: Fish out of Water and the Coming of Age Comedy
- 11. Road and Buddy Movies, Frat Boy Frolics and Gross Out
- 12. Sports, Military and Ensemble Comedy
- 13. Farce and Black Comedy
- 14. Crime, Caper and Heist
- 15. Satire, Parody and Mockumentary
- Appendices
- Interviews with Directors, writers and Producers
- Writing Exercises
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index.