Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film / / Ryan Bishop.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bishop, Ryan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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 Image --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748677801; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748677801?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ryan Bishop.

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 Virilio, Friedrich Kittler and Jacques Derrida, Bishop brings a new perspective to comedy in film suggesting that it is central to staging cultural criticism. He discusses themes such as repetition, automation, material systems of information media, the level of address in a communicative act, and the shifting role of the image.Key features Close analysis of two films to illustrate key points in each chapterRelevant both to film and cultural studiesChronological treatment