Comedy and Cultural Critique in American Film / / 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 Viri...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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