... Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorised Guide […] (Larsen, 2008) (RR 2009/138). Larson is a Professor in the Media Arts Department and the Centre for Animation at Brigham Young University. Cinema Humour © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016...

...Peter Wellburn James Roots The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians Lanham, MD and London Rowman & Littlefield 2014 xxix + 433 pp. 9781442236493(print) 9781442236509(e-book) £65 $95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 --> Cinema Humour...

...Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic Edited by Salvatore Attardo Encyclopedia of Humor Studies Thousand Oaks, CA Sage 2014 9781483346175 Contact publisher for pricing information © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 --> Encyclopedias Humour...

..., by no means only classicists, and for specialists and researchers in various fields. It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of a field of study significant in many ways beyond the purely literary and theatrical. Ancient Greece Humour Theatre ...

...Jodi Kearns Douglas McCall Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969-2012 (2nd edition) Jefferson, NC McFarland 2013 vii + 382 pp. ISBN9780786478118(print);ISBN9781476613116(e-book) $45 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 --> Humour Television...

...Val Hamilton Edited by Gyles Brandreth Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (5th edition) Oxford Oxford University Press 2013 xvii + 465 pp. 9780199681365 £20 $35 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Dictionaries Humour Quotations...

... Humour Question: how many librarians does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: 729.28, according to Dewey. Apologies – that was unnecessary. But this is a small attempt to get us in the right frame of mind for this book, A Companion to Film Comedy from Wiley-Blackwell. A minor caveat...

... they are mentioned, this glossary allows the user of the book to refer back to specific extracts and find immediately information on any particular named character or place in which they may have an interest. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Ancient history Greece Humour Literature...

...Bob Duckett Edited by Robert A.   Logan . Christopher Marlowe . Farnham and Burlington, VT : Ashgate   2011 . xxxii+520 pp. , ISBN: 978 0 7546 2857 6   £165 $247.50 The University Wits © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Drama Humour English...

... --> Humour Literature United Kingdom This selectively exhaustive 450‐page tome in the selectively exhaustive Dictionary of Literary Biography series (397 volumes to date) is dedicated to the period and genre of “Twentieth‐Century British Humorists”. The stated purpose of the series...

... pp. , ISBN: 978 0 8108 6131 2   £99 $150 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Guides and handbooks Humour Television This book is written by the author of Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama Larsen 2003) and is a further development of his...

... gap between the rich and the poor, attitudes towards rural poverty, enclosures [etc]” (Chapter 13). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Humour Literature The index covers 25 double‐columned pages of names (personal, places and titles), and topics (e.g. colonialism, comedy...

...Martin Guha Edited by Maurice   Charney . Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide . Westport, CT : Praeger   2005 . 2 vols.   £185 $325 , ISBN: 0 313 32706 8 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Encyclopedias History Humour I am not quite sure...

...David Harrison Ben   Schott . Schott's Sporting, Gaming and Idling Miscellany . London : Bloomsbury   2004 . 160 pp. , ISBN: 0 7475 6924 X   £9.99/$14.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Sports Leisure activities Humour If there's a new Ben...

...Alan Day Humour USA Here it is straight. The two authors of this Encyclopedia, both English teachers, have worked in humour studies for 25 years, originally attracted to the field in order to make their grammar lectures more interesting. In 1982 they invited the public to attend...

... --> Television United Kingdom Humour Entertainment Little did I know when reviewing the US‐focused Television Sitcom Factbook (RR Vol. 15/2) and wishing for a companion volume for the UK, that one would land on my desk a month later: thanks Ed! It’s not quite the same ‐ less factbook...

... --> Literature Art History Humour Bibliographies People come at the subject of fools and jesters, clowns and harlequins, tricksters and holy innocents, from many directions: sociology, art, literature, religion, history, popular entertainment, anthropology, opera, postmodernism. This is a particularly...

... Ltd, Folkestone © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Biography Humour It was a great joy to read the biographies in this entertaining book. I was doubly pleased because so many of the artists covered were people an old codger such as I had heard on early radio in the 1920s, and a lot of them...