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The last laugh : strange humors of cinema /
For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But strange, dark laughter that illuminates non-comedic, unfunny situations gets much less attention. T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the great corrective / Murray Pomerance
- Laughing silently / Matthew Solomon
- Wellesian laughter / James Morrison
- Jerry made his day / Jean-Michel Frodon
- Noir at play / Thomas Leitch
- "So bad it's good" : critical humor in science fiction cinema / Christine Cornea
- Wrenching departures : mortality and absurdity in avant-garde film / David Sterritt
- Time's timing and the threat of laughter in Nicolas Roeg's Don't look now / George Toles
- The gangster giggles / Murray Pomerance
- If only they had meant to make a comedy : laughing at Black swan / Adrienne L. McLean
- Foolish bum, funny shit : scatological humor in Hal Hartley's not-so-comedic Henry Fool / David Martin-Jones
- Homeric laughter in The treasure of the Sierra Madre / R. Barton Palmer
- "Why so serious?" : battling the comic in The dark knight / Dominic Lennard
- The laughter of robots / Linda Ruth Williams.