What’s So Funny?
by Andy Mason
A thoroughly researched thesis on South African cartoon and comic art, this book tends to focus on the politically inspired output of SA’s greatest talents – from Boonzaaier to Bauer to Botes. I was surprised to find some unseen gems by George Cruikshank and James Gillray reproduced within. Andy Mason is a scholar of the art form, and this is an impressive piece of work – if only it was printed in full colour! – J.B.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
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Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams
Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, "The Far Side," Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching "The Simpsons"? In "Inside Jokes," Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh [Paperback]
by John Allen Paulos
Book Description
Publication Date: March 15, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0231119151 | ISBN-13: 978-0231119153 | Edition: Revised
The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling books but also from his media appearances, including The David Letterman Show and National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" and "Science Friday," as well as articles in Newsweek, Nature, Discover, Business Week, the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books.
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Baughman's Handbook of Humor in Education [Hardcover]
by Millard Dale Baughman
Book Description
Publication Date: June 1974 | ISBN-10: 0130725048 | ISBN-13: 978-0130725042 | Edition: Unknown Edition
The Educator's Complete Collection of "Wisdom Spoken in Jest," compiled for instant humor. Included are zesty jokes, quips, witticisms and stories that will prove themselves useful in any speech or lecture - on any topic - and for any occasion related to education.
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Creativity How to Catch Lightning in a Bottle
Author: George, Ph.D. Gamez
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Psychologist, entrepreneur, and musician Gamez produces motivational and self-hypnosis tapes, hosts a cable television show, and claims over 20 years of experience with creativity enhancement. He asserts that "we are all creative all the time" but believes that most of us are not aware of it. This statement, which is the theme of the book, is followed by everyday examples of creativity. The book goes on to explore the stages of the creative process and ways to acquire new tools to enhance creativity. Especially when one considers the subject matter, this is an uninspiring and uninteresting work. Libraries in need of works on enhancing creativity in adults would do better with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Creativity (LJ 6/15/96). (Illustrations not seen.)?January Adams, Franklin Twp. P.L., Somerset, N.J.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
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A Treasury of Italian Folklore and Humor Hardcover
by Henry D. Spalding (Author)
Product Details
Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan David/ Bookthrift; Reprint edition (1980)
ASIN: B0010TERYK
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
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Anatomy of Criticism
by Herman Northrop Frye
Herman Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press, 1957) attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature. Frye consciously omits all specific and practical criticism, instead offering classically inspired theories of modes, symbols, myths and genres, in what he termed "an interconnected group of suggestions." The literary approach proposed by Frye in Anatomy was highly influential in the decades before deconstructivist criticism and other expressions of postmodernism.
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Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature (Humor in Life and Letters Series) Paperback
by Sarah Blacher Cohen (Author)
This essay collection serves as an excellent introductory survey of the various comic forms employed in contemporary American literature, such as black comedy, ethnic humor, pop 'dreck' and the urban tall tale. Along the way the reader not only gains insight into the comic technique, but also a finer appreciation for the art of writers like Roth, Vonnegut, Bellow, Barthelme, and Nabokov.
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Asian Laughter, an anthology of oriental satire and humor Hardcover
by Leonard Feinberg (Editor)
A collection of short stories, essays, anecdotes, poems, and plays representing two thousand years of wit and humor in China, Japan, India, and Ceylon.
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The Guinness Book of Humorous Anecdotes Paperback
by Nigel Rees (Author)
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Anatomy of Satire
by Gilbert Highet
An information-packed study by a well-known classicist and literary critic analyzes by definitions, descriptions, and examples the tree main forms of satire: monolog, parody, and narrative. The author takes as the scope of hiswork the entire range of satirical literature from ancient Greece to contemporary America, from Aristophanes to Henry Miller.
Monday, June 16, 2014
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Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation
by Charna Halpern, Close, Kim Howard Johnson, Del Close
ISBN: 9781566080033
Format: pdf
Page: 150
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing, Limited
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Comedy Meaning and Form
by Robert Willoughby Corrigan
Product Details
Paperback: 335 pages
Publisher: Harpercollins College Div; 2 Sub edition (December 1980)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060413700
ISBN-13: 978-0060413705
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
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Joe Franklin's Encyclopedia of Comedians [Paperback]
Joe Franklin (Author)
Product Details
Paperback: 347 pages
Publisher: Lyle Stuart (April 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0806507748
ISBN-13: 978-0806507743
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2.5 cm
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The Game of Humor: A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh Paperback
by Charles R. Gruner (Author)
Humor, wit, and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature, newspapers, and television we experience humor in many forms, yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune, stupidity, and moral or cultural defects, however faintly revealed in others and ourselves, seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting, such negative terms as superiority, aggression, hostility, ridicule, or degradation can be applied to instances of humor. According to scholars, Thomas Hobbes's "superiority theory"—that humor arises from mischances, infirmities, and indecencies, where there is no wit at all—applies to most humor. With the exception of good-natured play, Charles R. Gruner claims that humor is rarely as innocent as it first appears.
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Comedy Writing Secrets: How to Think Funny, Write Funny, Act Funny and Get Paid For It
By Melvin Helitzer
Product Details
Paperback: 325 pages
Publisher: Writers Digest Books (March 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0898795109
ISBN-13: 978-0898795103
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
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Comedy Writing (Teach Yourself Educational) [Paperback]
Jenny Roche (Author)
Book Description
Publication Date: 17 May 1999 | Series: Teach Yourself Educational
This guide examines the power of comedy and explains how to be a writer of this genre. Writing for radio, stage, TV, jokes, sitcom, stand-up, cartoons and children are dealt with. Each stage of the process is covered, from creating ideas and learning the craft, to marketing the material.
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100 Best Careers for Writers and Artists Paperback
by Shelly Field (Author)
What and where the jobs are for people with creative talents!For all the aspiring writers and artists who want to put their creative talents to good use, here's the guide that can show them how! Compiled by one of America's leading career specialists, it profiles all the best job opportunities in communications and the arts--and tells how to get them. Features include:- Complete coverage of all the most exciting fields: theater arts, fashion, television, film, advertising, journalism, publishing, marketing, and more- Job responsibilities, salaries, and educational and training requirementsShelly Field is a career and public relations specialist and the author of ARCO's 100 Best Careers for the 21st Century.
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The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even If You're Not Paperback
by John Vorhaus (Author)
This is a straightforward, often humorous workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem-solving. In it, veteran Hollywood comedy writer John Vorhaus offers his tools of the trade to writers, comics, and anyone else who wants to be funny. Among these indispensable tools are Clash of Context, Tension and Release, The Law of Comic Opposites, The Wildly Inappropriate Response, and The Myth of the Last Great Idea. Readers will learn that comedy = truth and pain (the essence of the comic situation), that fear is the biggest roadblock to comedy (kill the ferocious editor within and rich, useful comic ideas will flow), and much more.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
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Public Speaking For Dummies
by Malcolm Kushner
Overview
Tried-and-true tips for dazzling your audience
Conquer your public speaking jitters and deliver a dynamite speech
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