Can I read The Comedy Studies Reader on EtoBox?

The Comedy Studies Reader by Nick Marx; Matt Sienkiewicz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Comedy Studies Reader about?

Winner, MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020 From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy Studies Reader . This anthology brings together classic articles, more recent works, and original essays that consider a variety of themes and approaches for studying comedic media—the carnivalesque, comedy mechanics and absurdity, psychoanalysis, irony, genre, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation and globalization. The authors range from iconic theorists, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, and Linda Hutcheon, to the leading senior and emerging scholars of today. As a whole, the volume traces two parallel trends in the evolution of the field—first, comedy's development into myriad subgenres, formats, and discourses, a tendency that has led many popular comment

Who reads The Comedy Studies Reader?

Author

Nick Marx; Matt Sienkiewicz

Publisher

Austin: University of Texas Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781477315996

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, History, Sports

Rating

4.2 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14