{"product_id":"the-comedy-studies-reader-9781477316009","title":"The Comedy Studies Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, MPCA\/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association \/ Midwest American Culture Association, 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Comedy Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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 commentators to characterize the present as a \"comedy zeitgeist\"; and second, comedy studies' new focus on the ways in which comedy increasingly circulates in \"serious\" discursive realms, including politics, economics, race, gender, and cultural power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-6852566\"\u003eNick Marx\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477316009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477316000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER004090\"\u003eFilm | Genres | Comedy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER010080\"\u003eTelevision | Genres | Comedy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNICK MARX \u003cbr\u003e Fort Collins, Colorado\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarx is an assistant professor of media studies at Colorado State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMATT SIENKIEWICZ \u003cbr\u003e Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSienkiewicz is an associate professor of communication and international studies at Boston College.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44586672619757,"sku":"9781477316009","price":49.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_b9ec0749-83e8-4f46-8f42-b35e6f5f7bae.jpg?v=1702185466","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-comedy-studies-reader-9781477316009","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}