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Laughing out loud : writing the comedy-centered screenplay / Andrew Horton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520923546
  • 0520923545
  • 0585276374
  • 9780585276373
  • 9780520220140
  • 0520220145
  • 9780520220157
  • 0520220153
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Laughing out loud.DDC classification:
  • 808.2/3 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1996 .H668 2000eb
Online resources:
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.
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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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English.

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