Voytilla, Stuart,  1959- <br/><br/>
Writing the comedy film :  make 'em laugh / 
Stuart Voytilla & Scott Petri. 
 - Studio City, CA :  Michael Wiese Productions,  c2003. 
 - xiii, 215 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0941188418 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002154211 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comedy films--Authorship.<br/>Comedy films--History and criticism.<br/>Comedia--Historia y crítica.<br/>20150300
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1995.9  / V976w 2003