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Author : Scott Siegel
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Film Comedy written by Scott Siegel and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A to Z guide to film comedies. Illus.
Author : Steve Vineberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742526341
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book High Comedy in American Movies written by Steve Vineberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Comedy in American Movies explores the 'comedy of manners' film throughout the twentieth century, from the advent of movie sound to recent films, and shows how class comedy's inside view of the aristocratic lifestyle has been influenced by the culture and times in which the movies are produced. Outlining the conventions of class comedy, Steve Vineberg discusses its British roots and analyzes how many American filmmakers have modified the genre, creating a distinctly American approach to class. Easily accessible, High Comedy in American Movies makes an engaging supplement to courses in American film, film genre, and film studies.
Author : Zach Sands
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135160029X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Film Comedy and the American Dream written by Zach Sands and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Comedy and the American Dream is an examination of national identity in the era of the American superpower as projected in popular comedic films that center on issues of upward mobility. It is the story of what made audiences laugh and why, and what this says about the changing shape of the American Dream from the end of the Second World War through the first part of the twenty-first century. Through a combination of narrative and thematic analyses of popular comedic films, contextualized within a dynamic historical framework, the book traces the increasing disillusionment with this central ideology in the face of multiple forms of systemic exclusion. It argues that film comedy is a major component of the discourse surrounding the American Dream because these movies often evoke humor by highlighting the incongruities that exist between the ideals that define this nation versus the actual lived experiences of its citizens.
Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364352
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Film Comedy written by Geoff King and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy is one of the most popular forms in film. But what exactly is film comedy and what might be the basis of its widespread appeal? This book takes a multi-perspective approach to answering these questions.
Author : Saul Austerlitz
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569767637
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Another Fine Mess written by Saul Austerlitz and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Chaplin. Buster Keaton. The Marx Brothers. Billy Wilder. Woody Allen. The Coen brothers. Where would the American film be without them? Yet the cinematic genre these artists represent--comedy--has perennially received short shrift from critics, film buffs, and the Academy Awards. Saul Austerlitz’s Another Fine Mess is an attempt to right that wrong. Running the gamut of film history from City Lights to Knocked Up, Another Fine Mess retells the story of American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother--the comedy. In 30 long chapters and 100 shorter entries, each devoted primarily to a single performer or director, Another Fine Mess retraces the steps of the American comedy film, filling in the gaps and following the connections that link Mae West to Doris Day, or W. C. Fields to Will Ferrell. The first book of its kind in more than a generation, Another Fine Mess is an eye-opening, entertaining, and enlightening tour of the American comedy, encompassing the masterpieces, the box-office smashes, and all the little-known gems in between.
Author : Harold Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book An American Comedy written by Harold Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nilo Couret
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520296842
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mock Classicism written by Nilo Couret and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cantinflismo and Relajo's peripheral vision -- The call of the screen: Niní Marshall and the radiophonic stardom of Argentine cinema -- Timing is everything : Sandrini's stutter and the representability of time -- Fictions of the real : the currency of the Brazilian Chanchada -- Comedy circulates circuitously : toward an odographic film history of Latin America
Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674739062
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pursuits of Happiness written by Stanley Cavell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.
Author : Alan Bilton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137020246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book Silent Film Comedy and American Culture written by Alan Bilton and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags expressing the unconscious wishes and fears of the modern age, in a way that foreshadows the concerns of our own celebrity-obsessed consumer culture.
Author : Mark Winokur
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312123420
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Laughter written by Mark Winokur and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Marx Brothers to the screwball romance, Mark Winokur looks at the role of immigration and ethnicity on the development of American film comedy. Winokur employs a broad range of new concepts in film history and culture studies, from areas as diverse as Balkan politics, Art Deco, vaudeville, the Jewish lansmanshaft, and body criticism.
