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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 Software eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam University Press 2016.
©2016
Colección:Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Photo Credits
  • Index of Concepts
  • Index of Titles
  • Index of Names.