Ryan Bishop

Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. This is a historical and conceptual study discussing the comedy narrative, comic traditions, and role of visual culture. The important innovators of American film comedy and the role of visual technology within cultural politic are discussed, as well as theorists such as Freud, Baudrillard, and Derrida. Key features* Close analysis of two films to illustrate key points in each chapter* Relevant both to film and cultural studies* Chronological treatment

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748677825
• Artikelnr.: 56903749

Autorenporträt

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 American Film Comedy and Cultural Critique
2 The Feeding Machine and Feeding the Machine: Silence, Sound and the Technologies of Cinema
3 The Constitution of the Real: Documentary, Mockumentary, and the Status of the Image
4 Parody: Targeting Cinema's Narrative Technics
5 The Unspeakable and Political Satire: Performance, Perception, and Technology
6 Conclusion: Between the Machine and the Event: Film Comedy
Index