New PDF release: A Companion to Film Comedy

By Andrew Horton,Joanna E. Rapf

ISBN-10: 1119169550

ISBN-13: 9781119169550

ISBN-10: 1444338595

ISBN-13: 9781444338591

A wide-ranging survey of the topic that celebrates the range and complexity of movie comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the current, this authoritative advisor bargains a global standpoint at the well known style that explores all features of its formative social, cultural and political context

A wide-ranging selection of 24 essays exploring movie comedy from the silent period to the present
International in scope, the gathering embraces not only American cinema, together with local American and African American, but in addition comedian movies from Europe, the center East, and Korea
Essays discover sub-genres, performers, and cultural views akin to gender, politics, and historical past as well as person works
Engages with assorted strands of comedy together with slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic
Features unique entries from a various workforce of multidisciplinary foreign contributors

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