{"product_id":"9781501335723","title":"The Comic Event : Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Comic Event approaches 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing examples from mainstream comedy, The Comic Event progresses 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 Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49782014607608,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":342.71,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781501335723-1.jpg?v=1783710709","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781501335723","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}