Overview
- Provides the first book length study on the intersection of comedy and games studies
- Brings together comedy studies, game studies, media studies, philosophy, anthropology, and folkloristics
- Can be used in teaching a wide range of classes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Scaffolding and How to Fall Off It: Theories and Concepts
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Clowning Around: Contexts, Cultures, and Communities
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Five Ways to Spoil a Joke: Case Studies
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone is Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta, and a Research Fellow with the University of Kent, UK. She has written extensively on comedy, including comedy in video games.
Tomasz Z. Majkowski is Associate Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where he teaches and researches games, the carnivalesque and popular culture among other areas.
Jaroslav Švelch is Assistant Professor of media studies at Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic. A media scholar and linguist by training, his research focuses on game history, humour in video games, and video game monsters. He is the author of Gaming the Iron Curtain (2018), a history of computer gaming in 1980s Czechoslovakia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Video Games and Comedy
Editors: Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Tomasz Z. Majkowski, Jaroslav Švelch
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88338-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88337-9Published: 29 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88340-9Published: 30 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88338-6Published: 26 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 362
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comedy Studies, Popular Culture, Media and Communication