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The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy offers a rich sampling of the most current research and evolving trends in a vast and growing field-the study of humor and comedy in movies, television, streaming content, social media, and other forms of mediated comedy.
List of contents
- 01 Introduction
- William V. Costanzo and Peter C. Kunze
- Part I: Genre and Aesthetics
- 02 Regenerating "Radical Romantic Comedy" for the Twenty-first Century
- Maria San Filippo
- 03 Romcoms Without 'Men': The Ongoing Reconstruction of Masculinity in the Streaming Era
- John Alberti
- 04 Narrative Structures of the French comédie communautaire: 2008-2017
- John Bennett
- 05 A Humorous Geographic Expression: North versus South in Italian Film
- Delia Chiaro
- 06 Everyday Politics of Black Women's Late-Night Comedy
- Jessyka Finley
- 07 Netflix, Aziz Ansari, and the Comedian as Auteur
- Meenasarani Linde Murugan
- 08 Seven Takes on the Blooper Reel
- Annie Berke
- 09 The Laugh Track
- Brett Mills
- 10 Gag Cinema: The Explicit Turn in Popular Film Comedy
- Josh Moss
- Part II: Representations and Identities
- 11 Transing the Body Swap Comedy
- Frances Smith
- 12 Television Comedy, the Branded Self, and Hacks's Inter-Generational Critique
- Leigh Edwards
- 13 Eddie Murphy's Last Laugh
- Brittney Michelle Edmonds
- 14 Apocalyptic Laughter, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and Satire as the World Ends
- Danielle Fuentes Morgan
- 15 Dolemite Is My Name, Black Queer Visibility, Blaxploitation, and the Momentary
- Backstudio Biopic
- Ken Feil
- 16 Maid in Latin America: On the Trajectory of Domestic Service Film Comedies
- Juan Poblete
- Part III: Politics and Publics
- 17 American Comedies, Imperial Heritage
- Judith Yaross Lee
- 18 Theorizing Feminist+ Uses of Humor as Erotic Joy and Power
- Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett
- 19 From the Tramp to Trump: On Sovereignty and Screen Comedy
- Paul Flaig
- 20 Not Brought to You by ZBC: Comedy, State Censorship, and the Internet in Zimbabwe
- Florence Madenga
- 21 Transformation in the North Korean Film and Television Industry
- Immanuel Kim
- 22 Cynicism in Contemporary Chinese Comedy Films
- Bruce Yun-Hang Lai
- 23 Satirical Liberals and Superior Conservatives: The Asymmetry of U.S. Political Humor
- Darin DeWitt and Nicole Seymour
- 24 Hipster Post-Irony and Humor on Social Media
- David Gurney
- 25 Conspiracy, Memetic Irony, and the Cultural Style of Aggrieved Entitlement
- Viveca Greene
- Part IV: Technologies and Applications
- 26 The Tech-onomy of Stand-Up Comedy
- Rebecca Krefting
- 27 Millennial Authenticity and the Stand-Up Comedy Special
- Michelle Robinson
- 28 Abuela's a Trickster and Other Millennial Inventions of Latinidad on Digital Media
- Rocío León
- 29 Netflix, Comedy, and the Algorithmic Absurdity of I Think You Should Leave
- Nick Marx
- 30 Absurdity, Twitter Comedy, and Humor Bots
- Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen
- 31 Cyborg Laughter
- Robert J. King
About the author
Peter C. Kunze is Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University, where he teaches courses in film history, media industry studies, and media aesthetics and analysis. He is the author of
Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance and editor of several volumes, including
Conversations with Maurice Sendak and The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon.
William V. Costanzo is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and Film who has taught writing, literature, and film courses since 1970. He has published seven books on topics ranging from writing and computers to world cinema and film genres, including
World Cinema through Global Genres and
When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West. He is currently an active member of The Society of Cinema Studies and the International Society for Humor Studies
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy offers a rich sampling of the most current research and evolving trends in a vast and growing field-the study of humor and comedy in movies, television, streaming content, social media, and other forms of mediated comedy.
