The Object Of Comedy
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The Object Of Comedy
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Author : Jamila M. H. Mascat
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-02-12
The Object Of Comedy written by Jamila M. H. Mascat and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-12 with Performing Arts categories.
What is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the object of comedy but also its objectives – both its deliberate goals and its unintended side effects. In researching the object of comedy, the contributions gathered here encounter comedy as a philosophical object: instead of approaching comedy as a genre, the book engages with it as a language, a medium, an artifice, a weapon, a puzzle or a trouble, a vocation and a repetition. Thus philosophy meets comedy at the intersection of various fields (e.g. psychoanalysis, film studies, cultural studies, and performance studies) –regions that comical practices and theories in fact already traverse.
The Object Lesson Comedy In Three Acts
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Author : William MORRISON (F.B.E.A.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
The Object Lesson Comedy In Three Acts written by William MORRISON (F.B.E.A.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with categories.
The New Comedy
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Author : Adolf Paul Oppé
language : en
Publisher: General Books
Release Date : 2012-02
The New Comedy written by Adolf Paul Oppé and has been published by General Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with categories.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: that the Greeks ever went to the theatre to hear riddles propounded on the stage, though it is only natural that the poets did not overlook such an easy object of comedy as the riddle-guesser. From the important position assigned by Meineke to these plays, one is led to believe that Sappho, in the comedy of Antiphanes, is only brought on the stage for the sake of exhibiting her prowess in inventing and solving riddles. But Sappho is a common subject of comedy, and of one play at least we can reconstruct a plot entirely removed from all riddles.1 The Cleobulina of Alexis probably only introduced some woman who made riddles, like the Tlapoi/Ma6fj.evo; of Antiphanes, who was, in the words of Kock and Meineke, ' homo Sanchonis Pansae vel Sam Welleri instar, ' or the Phileuripides of Philippides, who must have been a man of sententious commonplace and quotation, possibly Philemon. What was the place of these characters in the intrigue we can only guess, but there is nothing particular to the Middle Comedy in the ridicule of any one class of characters. If the New Comedy rejected the Riddle-Guesser, it kept the whole list of characters known to us by the fragments, the plays of Plautus, and the notes on masks of Pollux. III.?THE DOMESTIC DRAMA In attempting to reconstruct the most prominent of the classes of plays written in the fourth century, the Domestic Plays, it is well to begin with a consideration of the characters who appeared on the scene. It hasalready been noted that these characters were typical, as opposed to the individual figures of the Old Comedy as we know it. It was the object of the New Comedy playwright to amuse the public by representing certain characters, whose qualities were at once obvious to the audience, and to manipulate them in the shifting scenes. Ori..
In Praise Of Comedy
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Author : James Feibleman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-04-26
In Praise Of Comedy written by James Feibleman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1939, the original blurb reads: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter, yet laughter is only what we do about comedy. What is comedy itself? In this work the history of comic instances is combed in the search for the truth about comedy. Today, when laughter is stifled in so many countries, an exposition of comedy shows it to have a universal and necessary character. Comedy, as its natures reveals, is one criterion of the state of human culture; it is highly contemporary and requires freedom – but freedom for adventure, not for routine. After a chapter devoted to the explanation of a logical theory of comedy, the modern comedians are examined, and the humour of every one, from the Marx Brothers to surrealism, from Gertrude Stein to Mickey Mouse, from James Joyce to Charlie Chaplin, is shown to be a constant, inherent in the same set of unchanging conditions.
An Object Lesson
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Author : Harry Collinson Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
An Object Lesson written by Harry Collinson Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with categories.
The Odd One In
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Author : Alenka Zupancic
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008-02-08
The Odd One In written by Alenka Zupancic and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-08 with Philosophy categories.
A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Molière to George W. Bush and Borat. Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic perspectives? In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupančič considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. Comedy by its nature is difficult to pin down with concepts and definitions, but as artistic form and social practice comedy is a mode of tarrying with a foreign object—of including the exception. Philosophy's relationship to comedy, Zupančič writes, is not exactly a simple story (and indeed includes some elements of comedy). It could begin with the lost book of Aristotle's Poetics, which discussed comedy and laughter (and was made famous by Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose). But Zupančič draws on a whole range of philosophers and exemplars of comedy, from Aristophanes, Molière, Hegel, Freud, and Lacan to George W. Bush and Borat. She distinguishes incisively between comedy and ideologically imposed, “naturalized” cheerfulness. Real, subversive comedy thrives on the short circuits that establish an immediate connection between heterogeneous orders. Zupančič examines the mechanisms and processes by which comedy lets the odd one in.
Ethics In Comedy
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Author : Steven A. Benko
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-10-02
Ethics In Comedy written by Steven A. Benko and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-02 with Performing Arts categories.
All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it also has the power to separate and divide. Humor that "crosses the line" can make people feel excluded and humiliated. This collection of new essays addresses possible ways that moral and ethical lines can be drawn around humor and laughter. What would a Kantian approach to humor look like? Do games create a safe space for profanity and offense? Contributors to this volume work to establish and explain guidelines for thinking about the moral questions that arise when humor and laughter intersect with medicine, gender, race, and politics. Drawing from the work of stand-up comedians, television shows, and ethicists, this volume asserts that we are never just joking.
A Philosophy Of Humour
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Author : Alan Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-13
A Philosophy Of Humour written by Alan Roberts and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-13 with Philosophy categories.
Humour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is. This book addresses the question 'What is humour?' by first untangling the definitions of humour, amusement and funniness before then providing a new theory of humour which draws upon recent research in philosophy, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience. The theory is built up without assuming any prior knowledge and illustrated through humorous examples which are both entertaining and educational for anyone curious about what makes things funny. The book is then an accessible illumination of joking matters from dinner tables to online platforms to comedy clubs.
Laughter Humor And Comedy In Ancient Philosophy
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Author : Pierre Destrée
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Laughter Humor And Comedy In Ancient Philosophy written by Pierre Destrée and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Philosophy categories.
"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology of laughter, the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor. and the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique"--
Theorizing The Comic Object In Classical French Cinema
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Author : Mackenzie M. Leadston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Theorizing The Comic Object In Classical French Cinema written by Mackenzie M. Leadston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Comedy films categories.
Film comedy as a genre is exceptionally difficult to define. As comedy scholar Gerald Mast argued in his seminal work The Comic Mind, “we pretty much know what a comedy is even if we do not know what Comedy is” (9). Indeed, the viewing public is able to identify a film as a comedy, but it is difficult to put into words what makes a film comedy. While giving an overarching definition of such a diverse genre is certainly challenging, this dissertation aims to theorize a particular element of film comedy, what I am terming the comic object, to conceive of larger generic conventions and make a step towards answering the puzzling question of what film comedy is. Because any sort of discussion of a genre as varied as comedy needs to be restricted, I limit my study to films of France’s classical era (1930s-1960s). I have chosen this timeframe not only because it is the “golden age of French comedy” (Remi Fournier Lanzoni, French Comedy on Screen, 69), but also because this historical period represents a moment of change and reorganization of a French society mediated by objects as a result of the rise of consumer culture and advertisement, shifting relationships to capitalism, and nationalist policies and projects that are reflected in the philosophy, literature, art, and film of the era. Through four chapters focusing on a distinct typology of the comic object—the commercial object, the domestic object, the hygiene object, and the fashion object—I examine an increasing intrusion of the object in space and into/onto the body. Using phenomenology and contemporary philosophies of perception, I build a theory of the comic film object, arguing that the comic object has a specific ontology derived from its framing and movement, comic environment, dialectic with the comic figure, conceptual ties to the body, its representational force as a sign and as bodily replacement, and its unique relationship to realism. The comic object is one that is liberated and unruly, freeing either itself or the body (or, constraining the body through the object’s freedom) that gives life and potentiality to the object that does not exist in other modes or genres. In theorizing the comic object on screen, I demonstrate a distinct element of comedy cinema and take steps towards theorizing the elusive genre.