| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The early comedies of the sound era -- The comedies of Post War France -- Comedy in the modern era -- French comedy today |
| Summary |
French film comedies have always been extremely popular with English-speaking audiences, especially in America with the numerous Hollywood remakes of comedies from France. These films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time they have always been difficult to classify. Often a combination of several genres, they can be described as a hybrid art form, incorporating basic slapstick elements (the Lumïre's brothers' L'arroseur arroš, 1895) all the way to rather daring, even delicate subjects such as war (Autant-Lara's La traverše de Paris, 1956) or racism (Philippe de Chauveron's Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu 2014). The diversity of disciplines - history, linguistics, and social and political sciences - that form the background of this analysis guarantees a variety of approaches. French Comedy on Screen investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscribed and exemplified an array of cultural and historical landmarks |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- France -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Comedy films
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137100191 |
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1137100192 |
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