{"product_id":"9781501335723","title":"The Comic Event : Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Comic Event\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Judith Roof\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event \u003c\/i\u003eapproaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an “event” that triggers, by virtue of a “cut,” an expected\/unexpected resolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing examples from mainstream comedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event \u003c\/i\u003eprogresses from the smallest comic moment-jokes, bits-to the more complex-caricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise “Laughter,” Sigmund Freud's \u003ci\u003eJokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e, and various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering event that resolves with a “cut,” Roof characterizes comedy not only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden expected\/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality, self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and aspects of performance in multiple contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies how scholars can take seriously comedic performance while shifting analysis away from ‘reductive structural modes of analysis’… [Its} largest strength is its palimpsestic style that gathers comedy forms and artists not often paired together in theatre and performance histories.” - \u003ci\u003eTheatre Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501335723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40670944493774,"sku":"9781501335723","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_6a577288-a2ec-479c-bea4-f5a3452e19e7.jpg?v=1639797137","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501335723","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}