TY - BOOK AU - Voytilla,Stuart AU - Petri,Scott TI - Writing the comedy film: make 'em laugh SN - 0941188418 AV - PN 1995.9 V976w 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Studio City, CA PB - Michael Wiese Productions KW - Comedy films KW - Authorship KW - History and criticism KW - Comedia KW - Historia y crítica KW - 20150300 N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0715/2002154211-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2002154211-b.html ER -