This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historica

This handbook tackles the understudied relationship between music and comedy cinema by analysing the nature, perception, and function of music from fresh perspe

Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research.

The De Gruyter Handbook of Humor Studies consolidates the cumulative contributions in theory and research on humor from 57 international scholars representing 2

This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which h