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Writing the comedy film : make 'em laugh / Stuart Voytilla & Scott Petri.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2003.Description: xiii, 215 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0941188418
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 1995.9 V976w 2003
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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