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| Author | : Geoff King |
| Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9781903364352 |
Comedy is one of the most popular forms in film. But what exactly is film comedy and what might be the basis of its widespread appeal? This book takes a multi-perspective approach to answering these questions.
| Author | : Gregg Rickman |
| Publisher | : Amadeus Press |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
This lavishly illustrated collection of essays recalls the movies that over the past century have created never-ending waves of hilarity. Their authors include such prominent critics as James Agee, J. Hoberman, Robin Wood, David Thomson and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Beginning as the book does with the Silent Era, it also features Louella Parsons writing about Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton writing about, more or less, himself.
| Author | : Scott Siegel |
| Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
An A to Z guide to film comedies. Illus.
| Author | : Kristine Brunovska Karnick |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2013-02-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135213232 |
Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.
| Author | : Anthony Balducci |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 078648893X |
Classic comedy routines and individual gags have been around for many hundreds of years, probably thousands; the best of these ribticklers make their merry way through theater, circus, film and television. The challenge to comedians has always been to adapt familiar material in a way that emphasizes their personal style and outlook. The many routines and gags cited in this illustrated history are lovingly deconstructed to show how they have been shaped to suit different eras and performers. These tried and true laugh-provokers are indestructible. Through all the remakes, revivals, recycles and revamps, they have survived robustly to the present day. As these timeless comedy gems are traced to their beginnings and followed through the years, readers are taken on a mirthful journey from Keystone to Zombieland.
| Author | : Frank Krutnik |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2006-10-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134946856 |
Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to the presence of gags and the involvement of humour and laughter - they seek both to explain the nature of these forms and conventions and to relate them to their institutional contexts. They propose that all forms and modes of the comic involve deviations from aesthetic and cultural conventions and norms, and, to demonstrate this, they discuss a wide range of programmes and films, from Blackadder to Bringing up Baby, from City Limits to Blind Date, from the Roadrunner cartoons to Bless this House and The Two Ronnies. Comedies looked at in particular detail include: the classic slapstick films of Keaton, Lloyd, and Chaplin; Hollywood's 'screwball' comedies of the 1930s and 1940s; Monty Python, Hancock, and Steptoe and Son. The authors also relate their discussion to radio comedy.
| Author | : Christopher Beach |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2002-02-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521002097 |
This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the development of sound comedy as a cinematic form. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s and early 1930s, filmmakers recognized that sound and narrative enlarged the semiotic and ideological potential of film. Analyzing the use of language in the films of the Marx Brothers, Frank Capra, Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, among others, Class, Language, and American Film Comedy traces the history of Hollywood from the 1930s to the present, while offering a new approach to the study of class and social relationships through linguistic analysis.
| Author | : Gerald Mast |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 1979-09-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0226509788 |
Although books on the comedies of the silent era abound, few have attempted to survey film comedy as a whole—its history and evolution, how the philosophical visions of its greatest artists and directors have shaped its traditions, and how these visions have informed both the meaning and manner of their work. Blending information with interpretation, description with analysis, Mast traces the development of screen comedy from the first crude efforts of Edison and Lumière to the subtlety and psychological complexity of Annie Hall. As he guides the reader through detailed discussions of specific films, Mast reveals the structures, the values, and the cinematic techniques which have appeared and reappeared in comic cinema. The second edition of The Comic Mind treats the comic developments of the 1970s in terms of the traditions of film comedy set forth in the first edition, including a discussion of the evolution of Jacques Tati and the emergence of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen as the two greatest American comic stylists of the seventies. "The most comprehensive study of film comedy yet written in English. . . .The book's extensive index with references to companies from which 16mm prints of many of the cited films may be rented will be of great value to the film teacher and audiovisual librarian."—Choice
| Author | : Andrew Horton |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 585 |
| Release | : 2015-12-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1119169550 |
A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors
| Author | : Stanley Cavell |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780674739062 |
Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.
