The Oxford Handbook of Screen Comedy

Peter C. Kunze is Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University, where he teaches courses in film history, media industry studies, and media aesthetics and analysis. He is the author of Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance and editor of several volumes, including Conversations with Maurice Sendak and The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon.William V. Costanzo is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and Film who has taught writing, literature, and film courses since 1970. He has published seven books on topics ranging from writing and computers to world cinema and film genres, including World Cinema through Global Genres and When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West. He is currently an active member of The Society of Cinema Studies and the International Society for Humor Studies

• 01 Introduction William V. Costanzo and Peter C. Kunze Part I: Genre & Aesthetics 02 Regenerating <"Radical Romantic Comedy> " for the Twenty-first Century Maria San Filippo 03 Romcoms Without 'Men': The Ongoing Reconstruction of Masculinity in the Streaming Era John Alberti 04 Narrative Structures of the French comédie communautaire: 2008-2017 John Bennett 05 A Humorous Geographic Expression: North versus South in Italian Film Delia Chiaro 06 Everyday Politics of Black Women's Late-Night Comedy Jessyka Finley 07 Netflix, Aziz Ansari, and the Comedian as Auteur Meenasarani Linde Murugan 08 Seven Takes on the Blooper Reel Annie Berke 09 The Laugh Track Brett Mills 10 Gag Cinema: The Explicit Turn in Popular Film Comedy Josh Moss Part II: Representations and Identities 11 Transing the Body Swap Comedy Frances Smith 12 Television Comedy, the Branded Self, and Hacks's Inter-Generational Critique Leigh Edwards 13 Eddie Murphy's Last Laugh Brittney Michelle Edmonds 14 Apocalyptic Laughter, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and Satire as the World Ends Danielle Fuentes Morgan 15 Dolemite Is My Name, Black Queer Visibility, Blaxploitation, and the Momentary Backstudio Biopic Ken Feil 16 Maid in Latin America: On the Trajectory of Domestic Service Film Comedies Juan Poblete Part III: Politics and Publics 17 American Comedies, Imperial Heritage Judith Yaross Lee 18 Theorizing Feminist+ Uses of Humor as Erotic Joy and Power Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett 19 From the Tramp to Trump: On Sovereignty and Screen Comedy Paul Flaig 20 Not Brought to You by ZBC: Comedy, State Censorship, and the Internet in Zimbabwe Florence Madenga 21 Transformation in the North Korean Film and Television Industry Immanuel Kim 22 Cynicism in Contemporary Chinese Comedy Films Yung-Hang Bruce Lai 23 Satirical Liberals and Superior Conservatives: The Asymmetry of U.S. Political Humor Darin DeWitt and Nicole Seymour 24 Hipster Post-Irony and Humor on Social Media David Gurney 25 Conspiracy, Memetic Irony, and the Cultural Style of Aggrieved Entitlement Viveca Greene Part IV: Technologies and Applications 26 The Tech-onomy of Stand-Up Comedy Rebecca Krefting 27 Millennial Authenticity and the Stand-Up Comedy Special Michelle Robinson 28 Abuela's a Trickster and Other Millennial Inventions of Latinidad on Digital Media Rocío León 29 Netflix, Comedy, and the Algorithmic Absurdity of I Think You Should Leave Nick Marx 30 Absurdity, Twitter Comedy, and Humor Bots Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen 31 Cyborg Laughter Robert J. King