Volume Introduction: Comedy as Theory, Industry, and Academic Discipline

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Volume Introduction: Comedy as Theory, Industry, and Academic Discipline 1
5. 1. The Carnivalesque 17
6. 2. Comedy Mechanics & Absurdity 45
7. 3. Psychoanalyzing Comedy 71
8. 4. Irony 102
9. 5. Genre 134
10. 6. Race & Ethnicity 170
11. 7. Gender & Sexuality 208
12. 8. Nation & Globalization 238
13. Contributors 282
14. Index 287