What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event / Dan O'Shannon.
Presents an entirely new approach to comedy theory. It challenges long-held beliefs and shows how the three main theories of comedy (incongruity, superiority, and relief) are not in conflict; but rather, work as parts of a larger model.
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New York :
Continuum,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Overview : Common comedy theories ; The comedic event ; Documenting the comedic event
- pt. 1. Elements of context: the reception factors : The receiver and his world ; Elements of communication ; Vehicles ; Level of control and identifying the source
- pt. 2. Comedic information : Fundamental components ; Incongruity ; Cognitive process ; Variations ; Comedy and entropy
- pt. 3. Enhancers, inhibitors, and aspects of awareness : How comedic information triggers enhancers and inhibitors ; Elements of the joke's communication, structure, and content
- Summing it all up.