مؤلف: Mr Jerry Palmer

Listen to any everyday conversation: it is full of the constant interruptions and detours of humour. Look at the TV schedules for any evening – how many of the programmes are comedies, or contain a d …

First published in 1993. When do we laugh? Why do we laugh? What makes us stop? What does ‘humour’ consist of? Listen to any everyday conversation: it is full of the constant interruptions and detour …

First published in 1993. When do we laugh? Why do we laugh? What makes us stop? What does ‘humour’ consist of? Listen to any everyday conversation: it is full of the constant interruptions and detour …

Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative – in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural …

Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative – in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural …