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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Software eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam University Press
2016.
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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.