Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Paperback - Nick Marx

In Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Nick Marx examines some of the genre's most memorable--and controversial--moments...

From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a ma...

Reducere. Castleman and Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season story, capturing the essence of television from its inception to the contemporary era of...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Nick MarxIllustration(s): 20 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 238Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. To the beginner, writing effective comedy can seem like a mysterious knack you need to be born with. But to Emmy award-winning comedy writer Gene P...

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A play inspired by the true story of Afghanistan's first youth music programme, exploring a world following the US invasion that is complex, contra...

Reducere. In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has been passed from generation to...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Robert SingerIllustration(s): 64 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dime...

Reducere. An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults, "road tested" at the Folger Shakespeare Library's Student Shakespeare Festival.A...

This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of D...

Scholarship usually represents itself as objective, dispassionate, and politically neutral. This masterful study uses Marx to shatter this picture.

In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized ...

Sketch by Sketch shows you how to create a practice that will help you to move away from a negative headspace and spiralling emotions towards the r...

Reducere. DescriptionThe American St. Nick tells the remarkable TRUE story of a handful of American soldiers who during the chaos of war, help bring Christma...

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Examining experiences of shame and stigma in the context of austerity and the declining welfare state, this book shows how social work can ameliora...

With coverage of both original ideas and the authors' own practical experiences, this book helps readers to unlock the importance of reflexivity an...

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

Reducere. The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-ce...

Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Bob OdenkirkPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 27Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lectu...

When it comes to designing and prototyping for the web, nothing beats Sketch. If you are passionate about designing UI/UX for mobile or web applica...

Contributor(s): Editor: Linda MizejewskiEditor: Victoria SturtevantIntroduction by: Kathleen Rowe KarlynWinner, Susan Koppleman Award for Best Anth...

In ten new essays on a selection of vital canonical films, contributors chart, explore, and advance the ways in which metacinema is at once a mode ...

Reducere. The idea of being both 'Native' and 'Christian' has been especially challenging among American Indians. Indian people have endured five hundred yea...

Reducere. From the Hand of Sketch...Henrietta "Hal" Mortimer has been working with England's operatives and spies for years, her remarkable memory and artist...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American wr...

The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam's place in America's self-image How did the Vietnam War change the...

Reducere. What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Je...

Reducere. This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n...

DescriptionIn 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico...

Reducere. This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as ...

Reducere. Lukas Prize ProjectWinner of the Bancroft Prize King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New Engl...

Reducere. This timely collection allows us to hear firsthand the amazingly diverse voices of North American Muslim writers speaking for themselves. Stereotyp...

In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial ident...

A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archae...

Reducere. Set in a snowy New England mill town, Right Angles is a comedy that centers around the matriarch of a Polish American family, Kasia Angielski. Kasi...

In this accessible guide, Jen Russell-Smith breaks down the barriers beginners face around sketching, and shows you how to begin with quick, loose ...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

This book proffers a new conceptual framework of sex, gender, and sexual identity, presenting data that documents these identities as typical and e...

Reducere. The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titi...

Based on the popular video web series Micah's Super Vlog, Micah and his friends learn the importance of honesty, friendship, and believing in each ...

Reducere. "Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one's identity and worldview, " Enrique Salmon writes in Eating the L...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation's origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Ameri...