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Titre(s) : A companion to film comedy [Texte imprimé] / edited by Andrew Horton and Joanna E. Rapf
Publication : Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
Description matérielle : xii, 571 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Comprend : Part I: Comedy Before Sound, and the Slapstick Tradition. The Mark of the Ridiculous
and Silent Celluloid: Some Trends in American and European Film Comedy from 1894 to
1929 / Frank Scheide ; Pie Queens and Virtuous Vamps: The Funny Women of the Silent
Screen / Kristen Anderson Wagner ; "Sound Came Along and Out Went the Pies": The American
Slapstick Short and the Coming of Sound / Rob King. ; Part II: Comic Performers
in the Sound Era. Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays: Carnivalesque Comedy and the
Marx Brothers / Frank Krutnik ; Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance / Kevin W. Sweeney
; Woody Allen: Charlie Chaplin of New Hollywood / David R. Shumway ; Mel Brooks, Vulgar
Modernism, and Comic Remediation / Henry Jenkins. ; Part III: New Perspectives on
Romantic Comedy and Masculinity. Humor and Erotic Utopia: The Intimate Scenarios of
Romantic Comedy / Celestino Deleyto ; Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) / Leger Grindon ; The
View from the Man Cave: Comedy in the Contemporary "Homme-com" Cycle / Tamar Jeffers
McDonald ; The Reproduction of Mothering: Masculinity, Adoption, and Identity in
Flirting with Disaster / Lucy Fischer. ; Part IV: Topical Comedy, Irony, and Humour
Noir. It's Good to be the King: Hollywood's Mythical Monarchies, Troubled Republics,
and Crazy Kingdoms / Charles Morrow ; No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and
the Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938) / William
Paul ; The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be / Maria DiBattista
; Dark Comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude / Mark Eaton. ; Part V: Comic Perspectives
on Race and Ethnicity. Black Film Comedy as Vital Edge: A Reassessment of the Genre
/ Catherine A. John ; Winking Like a One-Eyed Ford: American Indian Film Comedies
on the Hilarity of Poverty / Joshua B. Nelson ; Ethnic Humor in American Film: The
Greek Americans / Dan Georgakas. ; Part VI: International Comedy. Alexander Mackendrick:
Dreams, Nightmares, and Myths in Ealing Comedy / Claire Mortimer ; Tragicomic Transformations:
Gender, Humor, and the Plastic Body in Two Korean Comedies / Jane Park ; Comedy "Italian
Style" and I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) / Roberta Di Carmine
; "Laughter that Encounters a Void?": Humor, Loss, and the Possibility for Politics
in Recent Palestinian Cinema / Najat Rahman. ; Part VII: Comic Animation. Laughter
is Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream: The Case of Animated Comedy / Paul Wells
; Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated Portmanteau to the Risus Purus / Suzanne
Buchan.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of
film comedy from the 'silent' days to the present, this authoritative guide offers
an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its
formative social, cultural and political context."--Publisher's website
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Horton, Andrew (1944-....). Éditeur scientifique
Rapf, Joanna E. (1941-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Comédies (cinéma)
Films comiques
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 17 (23e éd.) = Comédie (cinéma)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781444338591 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1444338595 (hardback) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43645629b
Notice n° :
FRBNF43645629
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