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" Because I tell a joke or two : "
edited by Stephen Wagg.
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BL
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Record Number
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1046163
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b800533
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Title & Author
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Because I tell a joke or two : : comedy, politics, and social difference /\ edited by Stephen Wagg.
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Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1998.
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Page. NO
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xiv, 322 pages ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0415129206
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: 0415129214
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: 9780415129206
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: 9780415129213
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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'At ease, corporal' : social class and the situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to the 1990s / Stephen Wagg -- The Lancashire shaman : Frank Randle and Mancunian films / C.P. Lee -- Butterflies and caustic asides : housewives, comedy and the feminist movement / Maggie Andrews -- Tarts, tampons and tyrants : women and representation in British comedy / Laraine Porter -- Certain liberties have taken with Cleopatra : female performance in the Carry on films / Frances Gray -- Punching your weight : conversations with Jo Brand / Stephen Wagg -- The straight men of comedy / Mark Simpson -- Suits and sequins : lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the 1990s / Frances Williams -- 'Yeah, and I used to be a hunchback' : immigrants, humour and the Marx brothers / C.P. Lee -- 'Where everybody knows your name' : open convictions and closed contexts in the American situation comedy / Paul Wells -- Cringe and strut : comedy and national identity in post-war Australia / John McCallum -- 'Serious t'ing' : the black comedy circuit in England / Stephen Small -- 'They already got a comedian for governor' : comedians and politics in the United States and Great Britain / Stephen Wagg -- VIZ : gender, class and taboo / Dave Huxley -- Heard the one about the white middle-class heterosexual father-in-law? : gender, ethnicity and political correctness in comedy / Jane Littlewood and Michael Pickering.
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Subject
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University of South Alabama
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Comedy films-- History and criticism.
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Comedy.
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Comic, The.
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Television comedies-- History and criticism.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Cinéma.
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Comédie-- A la télévision.
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Comédie-- Au cinéma.
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Comédies (cinéma)-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Comédies télévisées-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Comedy films-- History and criticism.
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Comedy films.
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Comedy.
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Comic, The.
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Comic, The.
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Commedia dell'arte.
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Filmkomödie
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Gesellschaft
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Television comedies-- History and criticism.
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Television comedies.
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Télévision-- Émissions comiques.
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Humor (grappigheden)
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Komedies.
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Representatie (algemeen)
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Televisieseries.
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Großbritannien
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USA.
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Dewey Classification
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700/.417
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LC Classification
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PN1992.8.C66B43 1998
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NLM classification
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24.36bcl
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Added Entry
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Wagg, Stephen.
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