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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bishop, Ryan, 1959- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Sujets:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Bibel > Philemonbrief
Comedy films > United States > History and criticism.
Films comiques > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Comedy films.
Filmkomödie
Kulturkritik
Comédies (cinéma) > États-Unis > Histoire.
Komedi, USA.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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