Writing the comedy film : make 'em laugh /
Voytilla, Stuart, 1959-
Writing the comedy film : make 'em laugh / Stuart Voytilla & Scott Petri. - Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2003. - xiii, 215 p. ; 23 cm.
Sit down, shut up, and split a gut -- Comic perspective : how to develop a comic voice -- How comedy works : the physics of funny -- The tenets of laughter -- Comedy is conflict and collision -- Comedy is conviction -- Comedy is deception -- Comedy is wish-fulfillment and worst fear -- Comedy is truth -- Comedy is chaos and anarchy -- Comedy and children -- Comic stories and their structures -- Fish-out-of-water -- Romantic comedy -- The sports comedy -- The crime/caper comedy -- The military comedy -- The teen/coming-of-age comedy -- The ensemble comedy -- Farce -- Black comedy -- Satire, parody and mockumentary -- The end of the laughter? -- Appendix A. the stages of the hero's journey -- Appendix B. AFI's 100 years, 100 laughs -- Appendix C. Top ten comedies from the past five years.
0941188418
2002154211
Comedy films--Authorship.
Comedy films--History and criticism.
Comedia--Historia y crítica.
20150300
PN 1995.9 / V976w 2003
Writing the comedy film : make 'em laugh / Stuart Voytilla & Scott Petri. - Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2003. - xiii, 215 p. ; 23 cm.
Sit down, shut up, and split a gut -- Comic perspective : how to develop a comic voice -- How comedy works : the physics of funny -- The tenets of laughter -- Comedy is conflict and collision -- Comedy is conviction -- Comedy is deception -- Comedy is wish-fulfillment and worst fear -- Comedy is truth -- Comedy is chaos and anarchy -- Comedy and children -- Comic stories and their structures -- Fish-out-of-water -- Romantic comedy -- The sports comedy -- The crime/caper comedy -- The military comedy -- The teen/coming-of-age comedy -- The ensemble comedy -- Farce -- Black comedy -- Satire, parody and mockumentary -- The end of the laughter? -- Appendix A. the stages of the hero's journey -- Appendix B. AFI's 100 years, 100 laughs -- Appendix C. Top ten comedies from the past five years.
0941188418
2002154211
Comedy films--Authorship.
Comedy films--History and criticism.
Comedia--Historia y crítica.
20150300
PN 1995.9 / V976w 2003