Funny How? - Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor

Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works.

About the author

Alex Clayton is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, and the author of The Body in Hollywood Slapstick.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Clayton, Clayton Alex
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781438478296
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-7829-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; HUMOR / General, Humour, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form