A Companion To Film Comedy Andrew Horton Joanna E Rapf Eds by Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf (eds.) 9781118327821, 9781444338591, 1118327829, 1444338595 instant download after payment.
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
- A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present.
- International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea
- Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works
- Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic
- Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors
Content:
Chapter 1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid (pages 13–38): Frank Scheide
Chapter 2 Pie Queens and Virtuous Vamps (pages 39–60): Kristen Anderson Wagner
Chapter 3 “Sound Came Along and Out Went the Pies” (pages 61–84): Rob King
Chapter 4 Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays (pages 85–110): Frank Krutnik
Chapter 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance (pages 111–129): Kevin W. Sweeney
Chapter 6 Woody Allen (pages 130–150): David R. Shumway
Chapter 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation (pages 151–171): Henry Jenkins
Chapter 8 Humor and Erotic Utopia (pages 173–195): Celestino Deleyto
Chapter 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) (pages 196–216): Leger Grindon
Chapter 10 The View from the Man Cave (pages 217–235): Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Chapter 11 The Reproduction of Mothering (pages 236–247): Lucy Fischer
Chapter 12 It's Good to be the King (pages 249–272): Charles Morrow
Chapter 13 No Escaping the Depression (pages 273–292): William Paul
Chapter 14 The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To
