Popular Film and Television / Popular Fiction Series 

 -  Rouledge,  1994 
 - 294 
<br/><br/> Despite its immense and longstanding popularity, comedy has been relatively neglected in recent theoretical and historical work on film, television, and other popular media. This book seeks to redress the balance.  Acknowledgements, Introduction, Definitions and Genres and Forms, Comedy and Narrative, Gags and Jokes and Wisecracks and Comic Events, Laughter and Humor and the Comic, Verisimilitude, Hollywood and Comedy and the Case of Silent Slapstick, The Comedy of the Sexes, Comedy and Television and Variety, Broadcast Comedy and Sit-Com, Notes and References, Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>415046920