Humor mechanisms in film comedy: Incongruity and superiority

Poetics Today

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 221-249

  Vandaele, Jeroen ^a  

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EID: 60950658195     PISSN: 03335372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/03335372-23-2-221     Document Type: Article

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