Laughing out loud : writing the comedy-centered screenplay / Andrew Horton.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780520923546
- 0520923545
- 0585276374
- 9780585276373
- 9780520220140
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- 9780520220157
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- PN1996 .H668 2000eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index.
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.
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