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Humour and irony in Dutch post-war fiction film /

If Dutch cinema is examined in academic studies, the focus is usually on pre-war films or on documentaries, but the post-war fiction film has been sporadically addressed. Many popular box-office successes have been steeped in jokes on parochial conflicts, vulgar behavior and/or on sexual display, to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Verstraten, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
Colección:Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Introduction; 1. Low-Class Comedies; 2. Multicultural Comedies; 3. From 'Kind-hearted' Comedies to Neurotic Romances; 4. Deliberate Camp; 5. Humour as an Aftermath Effect; 6. Homosocial Jokes; 7. From Ludic Humour to Cosmic Irony; 8. From Insubordinate ­Playfulness to Subversive Irony; 9. From Grotesque Caricature to Grotesque Satire; Conclusion.