When The World Laughs
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When The World Laughs
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Author : William V. Costanzo
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
When The World Laughs written by William V. Costanzo 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 2020 with Performing Arts categories.
When the World Laughs is a book about the intersection of humor, history, and culture. It explores how film comedy, one of the world's most popular movie genres, reflects the values and beliefs of those who enjoy its many forms, its most enduring characters and stories, its most entertaining routines and funniest jokes. What people laugh at in Europe, Africa, or the Far East reveals important truths about their differences and common bonds. By investigating their traditions of humor, by paying close attention to what kinds of comedy cross national boundaries or what gets lost in translation, this study leads us to a deeper understanding of each other and ourselves. Section One begins with a survey of the theories and research that best explain how humor works. It clarifies the varieties of comic forms and styles, identifies the world's most archetypal figures of fun, and traces the history of the world's traditions of humor from earliest times to today. It also examines the techniques and aesthetics of film comedy: how movies use the world's rich repertoire of amusing stories, gags, and wit to make us laugh and think. Section Two offers a close look at national and regional trends. It applies the concepts set forth earlier to specific films-across a broad spectrum of sub-genres, historical eras, and cultural contexts-providing an insightful comparative study of the world's great traditions of film comedy.
Laugh And The World Laughs With You
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Laugh And The World Laughs With You written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Fort D.A. Russell National Historic Landmark (Wyo.) categories.
Laugh And The World Laughs With You In Pontypool
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Author : Grant William Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Kirkfield, Ont. : G.W. Curtis
Release Date : 2005
Laugh And The World Laughs With You In Pontypool written by Grant William Curtis and has been published by Kirkfield, Ont. : G.W. Curtis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Pontypool (Ont.) categories.
Why The World Laughs
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Author : Charles Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Why The World Laughs written by Charles Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Wit and humor categories.
Laugh And The World Laughs With You
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Laugh And The World Laughs With You written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with English language categories.
What S So Funny
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Author : Donna Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-06-09
What S So Funny written by Donna Jackson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Everyone loves to laugh, and to hear and see funny things-but what makes something funny in the first place? What is humor? This book explains why our brains think something is funny, what happens to us physically when we laugh, why you can tickle your friend but not yourself, and so much more. Plenty of jokes and silly anecdotes are included, and hilarious line drawings appear on almost every page.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox S Poems Of Cheer
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Author : Ella Wheeler Wilcox
language : en
Publisher: Portable Poetry
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Ella Wheeler Wilcox S Poems Of Cheer written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and has been published by Portable Poetry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with American poetry categories.
Born on November 5th 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin, Ella Wheeler was the youngest of four children. She began to write as a child and by the time she graduated was already well known as a poet throughout Wisconsin. Regarded more as a popular poet than a literary poet her most famous work 'Solitude' reflects on a train journey she made where giving comfort to a distressed fellow traveller she wrote how the others grief imposed itself for a time on her 'Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone'. It was published in 1883 and was immensely popular. The following year, 1884, she married Robert Wilcox. They lived for a time in New York before moving to Connecticut. Their only child, a son, died shortly after birth. Here we publish one of her many poetry books, Poems Of Cheer, that so endeared her to her audience. Ella died of breast cancer on October 30th, 1919.
The Last Laugh
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Author : Phil Berger
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2000
The Last Laugh written by Phil Berger and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Comedians categories.
The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic years of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Shecky Greene, to today's comedy superstars. Phil Berger shows how styles and trends in standup have changed over the past fifty years, but how taking the stage in a comedy club is as tough as it's always been. Performers profiled in the book include Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Elaine Boosler, Robert Klein, Bill Cosby, Billy Crystal, Dick Gregory, Andy Kaufman, Steve Martin, Cheech and Chong, Eddie Murphy, and a host of others. Filled with comics' hilarious routines and anecdotes, this substantially updated edition also chronicles the lives and careers of more recent artists, including Richard Lewis and Jay Leno.
Laughter And Liberation
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Author : Harvey Mindess
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Laughter And Liberation written by Harvey Mindess and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
Laughter and Liberation is based on the idea that humor is an agent of psychological liberation. Since we are able to include every kind of wit and humor under the umbrella of this thesis, it amounts to an informal, comprehensive theory of the ludicrous. Briefly put, the theory proposes that the most fundamental function of humor is its power to release us from the inhibitions and restrictions under which we live our daily lives.The quest for laughter is as old as man himselfEgyptian pharaohs and Roman emperors went to great lengths to amuse themselves, as did the monarchs of medieval Europe with court jesters. Our speech and literature abound with references to humor such as: "Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone," "He who laughs last laughs best," "All the world loves a clown," "Laugh if you are wise," and "A good laugh is sunshine in the house."In Laughter and Liberation, Harvey Mindess tells us how laughter and our sense of humor work. He gives us the background of several well-known humoristsSteve Allen, Richard Armour, Sholom Aleichemand explains his theory of how and why they have become expert in making others laugh.
Laughter
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Author : Anca Parvulescu
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010-08-27
Laughter written by Anca Parvulescu and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-27 with Philosophy categories.
Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw. Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. She sets out to uncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones. Historically, laughter—especially the passionate burst of laughter—has often been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatises and literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions to ladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the history of the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of the grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing process that leads to laughter's “falling into disrepute,” as Nietzsche famously put it, we can see the formless, contorted face in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm, social smile. How did the twentieth century laugh? Parvulescu points to a gallery of twentieth-century laughers and friends of laughter, arguing that it is through Georges Bataille that the century laughed its most distinct laugh. In Bataille's wake, laughter becomes the passion at the heart of poststructuralism. Looking back at the century from this vantage point, Parvulescu revisits four of its most challenging projects: modernism, the philosophical avant-gardes, feminism, and cinema. The result is an overview of the twentieth century as seen through the laughs that burst at some of its most convoluted junctures.