| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 251 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Problematics of film comedy. Notes on the sight gag / Noël Carroll -- Penis-size jokes and their relation to Hollywood's unconscious / Peter Lehman -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child : comedy and matricide / Lucy Fischer -- In search of radical metacinema / Stephen Mamber -- Mock realism : the comedy of futility in eastern Europe / Charles Eidsvik -- Comic occasions. Charles Chaplin and the annals of anality / William Paul -- The light side of genius : Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith in the screwball tradition / Dana Polan -- Cartoon and narrative in the films of Frank Tashlin and Preston Sturges / Brian Henderson -- The three stooges and the (anti- )narrative of violence : de(con)structive comedy / Peter Brunette -- Paralysis in motion : Jerry Lewis's life as a man / Scott Bukatman -- Woody Allen's Zelig : an American Jewish parody / Ruth Perlmutter -- The mouse who wanted to f--k a cow : cinematic laughter in Dusan Makavejev's films / Andrew Horton |
| Analysis |
Cinema Comedy films History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Comedy films -- History and criticism
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Comic, The.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General
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Comedy films
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Comic, The
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horton, Andrew, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9780520910256 |
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0520910257 |
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058529948X |
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9780585299488 |
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0520069978 |
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9780520069978 |
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0520070402 |
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9780520070400 |
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