Writing the comedy film make 'em laugh
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Studio City, CA
Michael Wiese Productions
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
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