RECOMMENDED READINGS FOR JUNE 2012
COMEDY
“Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It’s the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one’s fellow human beings.” – Maya Angelou
Books
Rough guide to comedy movies / by Bob McCabe.
Divine comedy : the inferno, the purgatorio, and the paradiso / Dante
Comedy of errors / William Shakespeare ; edited by Frances E. Dolan.
Confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole ; foreword by Walker Percy.
Handling sin / Michael Malone.
“If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.”
-Jennifer Jones
E-Books
Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy [electronic resource] / Christian Moevs.
Playing dirty [electronic resource] : sexuality and waste in early modern comedy / Will Stockton
Female playwrights and eighteenth-century comedy [electronic resource] : negotiating marriage on the London stage / Misty G. Anderson.
Taking humour seriously [electronic resource] / Jerry Palmer.
Comedy is a man in trouble [electronic resource] : slapstick in American movies / Alan Dale
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” – Langston Hughes
FILMS (Media Collection, 5th floor)
3 hommes et un couffin
The nasty girl
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy.
Monty Python’s the meaning of life
Wedding banquet
Donnie Darko
Friends. The complete eighth Edition
Bend it like Beckham
Chaplin collection. Volume one
“Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.”
-Bill Nye
Websites
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Humor – http://www.iep.utm.edu/humor/
The Comedy Underground
http://www.comedyunderground.com/
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists http://editorialcartoonists.com/
Robb Armstrong, Cartoonist
The International Society for Humor Studies
“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”
-Mel Brooks
