Laughing out loud : writing the comedy-centered screenplay /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=42267 |
Table of Contents:
- Elements of comedy that writers should know
- Exercises to nurture the comic muse
- From stage and page to screen: anarchistic and romantic comedy
- Physical humor: from commedia dell'arte and Moliere to vaudeville and silent screen comedy
- Sound comedy: American screwball romantic comedy, then and now
- Comedy and television: stand-up, sitcom and everything in between
- Comedies from around the world
- Comedy and the documentary impulse
- Feature film comedies
- Television comedy: Seinfeld and the Simpsons
- The fifteen-week feature comedy screenplay
- The seven-week half-hour television comedy pilot script
- Beyond happy endings: toward a comic conclusion.