Comedy and cultural critique in American film /
This book uses large scale social and cultural trends and major world events to analyse the American comedy film. This is a historical and conceptual study discussing the comedy narrative, comic traditions, and role of visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical writing of Jean Baudrillard, Paul Vir...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2013.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- CHAPTER 1 American Film Comedy and Cultural Critique: Glitches in the Smooth Running of the Social Machine
- CHAPTER 2 The Feeding Machine and Feeding the Machine: Silence, Sound and the Technologies of Cinema
- CHAPTER 3 The Constitution of the Real: Documentary, Mockumentary and the Status of the Ima
- CHAPTER 4 Parody: Targeting Cinema's Narrative Technics
- CHAPTER 5 The Unspeakable and Political Satire: Performance, Perception and Technology
- CHAPTER 6 Conclusion: Between the Machine and the Event: Film Comedy
- Index.