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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bishop, Ryan, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.