{"product_id":"9781501335730","title":"The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event \u003c\/i\u003eapproaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an \"event†? that triggers, by virtue of a \"cut,†? an expected\/unexpected resolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing examples from mainstream comedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Comic Event \u003c\/i\u003eprogresses from the smallest comic moment-jokes, bits-to the more complex-caricatures, sketches, sit-coms, parody films, and stand-up routines. Judith Roof builds on side comments from Henri Bergson's short treatise \"Laughter,†? Sigmund Freud's \u003ci\u003eJokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e, and various observations from Aristotle to establish comedy as a complex, multifaceted practice. In seeing comedy as a gathering event that resolves with a \"cut,†? Roof characterizes comedy not only by a predictable unpredictability occasioned by a sudden expected\/unexpected insight, but also by repetition, seriality, self-consciousness, self-referentiality, and an ourobouric return to a previous cut. This theory of comedy offers a way to understand the operation of a broad array of distinct comic occasions and aspects of performance in multiple contexts.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131482620144,"sku":"9781501335730","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501335730_p0.jpg?v=1763708669","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501335730","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}