Humor and comedy in puppetry
Subtitle: celebration in popular culture
By: edited by Dina Sherzer and Joel Sherzer.
Contributors: Sherzer, Dina.; Sherzer, Joel.
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press; Popular Press; Popular Press 1
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Bowling Green, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Puppet theater; Wit and humor -- History and criticism; Comic, The; Popular culture
Description: Humor and puppets / Antonio Pasqualino -- The cocreation of the comic in puppetry / Frank Proschan -- Verbal humor in the puppet theater / Dina Sherzer and Joel Sherzer -- The crown figure in the puppet theater of West Java : the ancestor and the individual / Kathy Foley -- Functions of the comic attendants (panasar) in a Balinese shadowplay / Fredrik E. deBoer -- The form and function of humor in the Liáege puppet theater / Joan Gross -- Humor and anti-humor in western Puebloan puppetry performances / M. Jane Young.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.