TY - BOOK AU - Horton,Andrew TI - Laughing out loud: writing the comedy-centered screenplay SN - 9780520923546 AV - PN1996 .H668 2000eb U1 - 808.2/3 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Motion picture authorship KW - Comedy films KW - History and criticism KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Film & Video KW - Screenwriting KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Music, Dance, Drama & Film KW - hilcc KW - Film KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - lcgft KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=42267 ER -