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A Companion to Film Comedy
Joanna E. Rapf (Hrsg.), Andrew Horton (Hrsg.)
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Fotografie, Film, Video, TV
Beschreibung
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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"And of course, it very much is. An important subject needs an important companion. This is it. That's all, folks."
"This work is indispensible for any student or scholar who, in the spirit of Rabelais, Swift, and Chesterton, will laugh while studying film images. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers."
"'Make 'em laugh!' may be a Hollywood musical imperative, but exactly how to make em' laugh-- and what it means when they do-- is harder to figure out. For this provocative, eclectic, and, yes, amusing compendium of essays, editors Andrew Horton and Joanna E. Rapf have corralled a gifted ensemble of comic-minded film scholars to ruminate over the pratfalls, wisecracks, and zany antics that--from custard-pie-thick one-reelers to sappy rom-coms--have left motion picture audiences rolling in the aisles and rolling their eyes. In examining the mechanics and cultural meanings of the serious business of film comedy, the essayists herein tackle a dizzying array of laugh-inducing genres (slapstick, screwball, sophisticated, ethnic, and gross-out, to name a few) and people (Charles Chaplin, Ernest Lubitsch, Jacques Tati, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and Ben Stiller, to name a very few). Best of all, the essays in this film companion are themselves all sharp-witted and good-humored: in dissecting film comedy, they manage not to kill the patient."
- Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University
"An impressive array of our best critical thinkers and an invaluable spectrum of comedians from Max Linder to Jim Carrey - it's a vital, challenging addition to film comedy studies."
- Ed Sikov
"The most wide-ranging collection on the topic to appear in years, this volume features essays by both leading scholars and new voices that will both redefine and expand the ways we think about many kinds of film comedy and the artists who create it."
-Matthew H. Bernstein, Emory University
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Filmkomödie, Cultural Studies, Filmtheorie, Kulturwissenschaften, Film Theory