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Comedy

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.021
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2022English
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This course is designed around analyzing what’s so funny and why is it that we laugh when we do. How is comedy characterized on the fictional page, the screen, and the stage? And what might the comic teach us about the self and culture(s), especially when we come to understand its patterns of transgression as confounding social norms through jokes and laughter?

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