Companion Film Comedy-NiP
Herausgeber: Horton, Andrew; Rapf, Joanna E
Companion Film Comedy-NiP
Herausgeber: Horton, Andrew; Rapf, Joanna E
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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…mehr
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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
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- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
- Seitenzahl: 584
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 31mm
- Gewicht: 1083g
- ISBN-13: 9781119169550
- ISBN-10: 1119169550
- Artikelnr.: 43022603
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
- Seitenzahl: 584
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 31mm
- Gewicht: 1083g
- ISBN-13: 9781119169550
- ISBN-10: 1119169550
- Artikelnr.: 43022603
Andrew Horton is the Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA. An award-winning screenwriter, he is also the author of twnty-eight books on film, screenwriting and cultural studies, including Screenwriting for a Global Market (2004), Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay (2nd edition, 2000), and The Films of Theo Angelopoulos (2nd edition, 1999). His screenplays include Brad Pitt's first feature film, The Dark Side of the Sun (1988), and the award-winning Something in Between (1983), directed by Srdjan Karanovic. He has led screenwriting workshops around the world as well as across the United States. Joanna E. Rapf is Professor of English and Film & Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA. She writes regularly about film comedy, with recent essays on Woody Allen, Jerry Lewis, Roscoe Arbuckle, Harry Langdon, and Marie Dressler, and has edited books on a range of subjects including Sidney Lumet, On the Waterfront, and Buster Keaton.
Notes on Editors and Contributors ix Comic Introduction: "Make 'em Laugh,
make 'em Laugh!" 1 Part I Comedy Before Sound, and the Slapstick Tradition
1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid: Some Trends in American
and European Film Comedy from 1894 to 1929 15 Frank Scheide 2 Pie Queens
and Virtuous Vamps: The FunnyWomen of the Silent Screen 39 Kristen Anderson
Wagner 3 "Sound Came Along and OutWent the Pies": The American Slapstick
Short and the Coming of Sound 61 Rob King Part II Comic Performers in the
Sound Era 4 Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays: Carnivalesque Comedy and the
Marx Brothers 87 Frank Krutnik 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance 111
Kevin W. Sweeney 6 Woody Allen: Charlie Chaplin of New Hollywood 130 David
R. Shumway 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation 151 Henry
Jenkins Part III New Perspectives on Romantic Comedy and Masculinity 8
Humor and Erotic Utopia: The Intimate Scenarios of Romantic Comedy 175
Celestino Deleyto 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) 196 Leger Grindon 10 The
View from the Man Cave: Comedy in the Contemporary "Homme-com" Cycle 217
Tamar Jeffers McDonald 11 The Reproduction of Mothering: Masculinity,
Adoption, and Identity in Flirting with Disaster 236 Lucy Fischer Part IV
Topical Comedy, Irony, and Humour Noir 12 It's Good to be the King:
Hollywood's Mythical Monarchies, Troubled Republics, and Crazy Kingdoms 251
Charles Morrow 13 No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the
Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938)
273 William Paul 14 The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To
Be 293 Maria DiBattista 15 Dark Comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude 315
Mark Eaton Part V Comic Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity 16 Black Film
Comedy as Vital Edge: A Reassessment of the Genre 343 Catherine A. John 17
Winking Like a One-Eyed Ford: American Indian Film Comedies on the Hilarity
of Poverty 365 Joshua B. Nelson 18 Ethnic Humor in American Film: The Greek
Americans 387 Dan Georgakas Part VI International Comedy 19 Alexander
Mackendrick: Dreams, Nightmares, and Myths in Ealing Comedy 409 Claire
Mortimer 20 Tragicomic Transformations: Gender, Humor, and the Plastic Body
in Two Korean Comedies 432 Jane Park 21 Comedy "Italian Style" and I soliti
ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) 454 Roberta Di Carmine 22
"Laughter that Encounters a Void?": Humor, Loss, and the Possibility for
Politics in Recent Palestinian Cinema 474 Najat Rahman Part VII Comic
Animation 23 Laughter is Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream: The Case of
Animated Comedy 497 Paul Wells 24 Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated
Portmanteau to the Risus Purus 521 Suzanne Buchan Index 545
make 'em Laugh!" 1 Part I Comedy Before Sound, and the Slapstick Tradition
1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid: Some Trends in American
and European Film Comedy from 1894 to 1929 15 Frank Scheide 2 Pie Queens
and Virtuous Vamps: The FunnyWomen of the Silent Screen 39 Kristen Anderson
Wagner 3 "Sound Came Along and OutWent the Pies": The American Slapstick
Short and the Coming of Sound 61 Rob King Part II Comic Performers in the
Sound Era 4 Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays: Carnivalesque Comedy and the
Marx Brothers 87 Frank Krutnik 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance 111
Kevin W. Sweeney 6 Woody Allen: Charlie Chaplin of New Hollywood 130 David
R. Shumway 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation 151 Henry
Jenkins Part III New Perspectives on Romantic Comedy and Masculinity 8
Humor and Erotic Utopia: The Intimate Scenarios of Romantic Comedy 175
Celestino Deleyto 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) 196 Leger Grindon 10 The
View from the Man Cave: Comedy in the Contemporary "Homme-com" Cycle 217
Tamar Jeffers McDonald 11 The Reproduction of Mothering: Masculinity,
Adoption, and Identity in Flirting with Disaster 236 Lucy Fischer Part IV
Topical Comedy, Irony, and Humour Noir 12 It's Good to be the King:
Hollywood's Mythical Monarchies, Troubled Republics, and Crazy Kingdoms 251
Charles Morrow 13 No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the
Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938)
273 William Paul 14 The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To
Be 293 Maria DiBattista 15 Dark Comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude 315
Mark Eaton Part V Comic Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity 16 Black Film
Comedy as Vital Edge: A Reassessment of the Genre 343 Catherine A. John 17
Winking Like a One-Eyed Ford: American Indian Film Comedies on the Hilarity
of Poverty 365 Joshua B. Nelson 18 Ethnic Humor in American Film: The Greek
Americans 387 Dan Georgakas Part VI International Comedy 19 Alexander
Mackendrick: Dreams, Nightmares, and Myths in Ealing Comedy 409 Claire
Mortimer 20 Tragicomic Transformations: Gender, Humor, and the Plastic Body
in Two Korean Comedies 432 Jane Park 21 Comedy "Italian Style" and I soliti
ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) 454 Roberta Di Carmine 22
"Laughter that Encounters a Void?": Humor, Loss, and the Possibility for
Politics in Recent Palestinian Cinema 474 Najat Rahman Part VII Comic
Animation 23 Laughter is Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream: The Case of
Animated Comedy 497 Paul Wells 24 Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated
Portmanteau to the Risus Purus 521 Suzanne Buchan Index 545
Notes on Editors and Contributors ix Comic Introduction: "Make 'em Laugh,
make 'em Laugh!" 1 Part I Comedy Before Sound, and the Slapstick Tradition
1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid: Some Trends in American
and European Film Comedy from 1894 to 1929 15 Frank Scheide 2 Pie Queens
and Virtuous Vamps: The FunnyWomen of the Silent Screen 39 Kristen Anderson
Wagner 3 "Sound Came Along and OutWent the Pies": The American Slapstick
Short and the Coming of Sound 61 Rob King Part II Comic Performers in the
Sound Era 4 Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays: Carnivalesque Comedy and the
Marx Brothers 87 Frank Krutnik 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance 111
Kevin W. Sweeney 6 Woody Allen: Charlie Chaplin of New Hollywood 130 David
R. Shumway 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation 151 Henry
Jenkins Part III New Perspectives on Romantic Comedy and Masculinity 8
Humor and Erotic Utopia: The Intimate Scenarios of Romantic Comedy 175
Celestino Deleyto 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) 196 Leger Grindon 10 The
View from the Man Cave: Comedy in the Contemporary "Homme-com" Cycle 217
Tamar Jeffers McDonald 11 The Reproduction of Mothering: Masculinity,
Adoption, and Identity in Flirting with Disaster 236 Lucy Fischer Part IV
Topical Comedy, Irony, and Humour Noir 12 It's Good to be the King:
Hollywood's Mythical Monarchies, Troubled Republics, and Crazy Kingdoms 251
Charles Morrow 13 No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the
Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938)
273 William Paul 14 The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To
Be 293 Maria DiBattista 15 Dark Comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude 315
Mark Eaton Part V Comic Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity 16 Black Film
Comedy as Vital Edge: A Reassessment of the Genre 343 Catherine A. John 17
Winking Like a One-Eyed Ford: American Indian Film Comedies on the Hilarity
of Poverty 365 Joshua B. Nelson 18 Ethnic Humor in American Film: The Greek
Americans 387 Dan Georgakas Part VI International Comedy 19 Alexander
Mackendrick: Dreams, Nightmares, and Myths in Ealing Comedy 409 Claire
Mortimer 20 Tragicomic Transformations: Gender, Humor, and the Plastic Body
in Two Korean Comedies 432 Jane Park 21 Comedy "Italian Style" and I soliti
ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) 454 Roberta Di Carmine 22
"Laughter that Encounters a Void?": Humor, Loss, and the Possibility for
Politics in Recent Palestinian Cinema 474 Najat Rahman Part VII Comic
Animation 23 Laughter is Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream: The Case of
Animated Comedy 497 Paul Wells 24 Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated
Portmanteau to the Risus Purus 521 Suzanne Buchan Index 545
make 'em Laugh!" 1 Part I Comedy Before Sound, and the Slapstick Tradition
1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid: Some Trends in American
and European Film Comedy from 1894 to 1929 15 Frank Scheide 2 Pie Queens
and Virtuous Vamps: The FunnyWomen of the Silent Screen 39 Kristen Anderson
Wagner 3 "Sound Came Along and OutWent the Pies": The American Slapstick
Short and the Coming of Sound 61 Rob King Part II Comic Performers in the
Sound Era 4 Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays: Carnivalesque Comedy and the
Marx Brothers 87 Frank Krutnik 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance 111
Kevin W. Sweeney 6 Woody Allen: Charlie Chaplin of New Hollywood 130 David
R. Shumway 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation 151 Henry
Jenkins Part III New Perspectives on Romantic Comedy and Masculinity 8
Humor and Erotic Utopia: The Intimate Scenarios of Romantic Comedy 175
Celestino Deleyto 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) 196 Leger Grindon 10 The
View from the Man Cave: Comedy in the Contemporary "Homme-com" Cycle 217
Tamar Jeffers McDonald 11 The Reproduction of Mothering: Masculinity,
Adoption, and Identity in Flirting with Disaster 236 Lucy Fischer Part IV
Topical Comedy, Irony, and Humour Noir 12 It's Good to be the King:
Hollywood's Mythical Monarchies, Troubled Republics, and Crazy Kingdoms 251
Charles Morrow 13 No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the
Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938)
273 William Paul 14 The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To
Be 293 Maria DiBattista 15 Dark Comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude 315
Mark Eaton Part V Comic Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity 16 Black Film
Comedy as Vital Edge: A Reassessment of the Genre 343 Catherine A. John 17
Winking Like a One-Eyed Ford: American Indian Film Comedies on the Hilarity
of Poverty 365 Joshua B. Nelson 18 Ethnic Humor in American Film: The Greek
Americans 387 Dan Georgakas Part VI International Comedy 19 Alexander
Mackendrick: Dreams, Nightmares, and Myths in Ealing Comedy 409 Claire
Mortimer 20 Tragicomic Transformations: Gender, Humor, and the Plastic Body
in Two Korean Comedies 432 Jane Park 21 Comedy "Italian Style" and I soliti
ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) 454 Roberta Di Carmine 22
"Laughter that Encounters a Void?": Humor, Loss, and the Possibility for
Politics in Recent Palestinian Cinema 474 Najat Rahman Part VII Comic
Animation 23 Laughter is Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream: The Case of
Animated Comedy 497 Paul Wells 24 Theatrical Cartoon Comedy: From Animated
Portmanteau to the Risus Purus 521 Suzanne Buchan Index 545